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  2. From: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: Re: Philosophy of Pi
  5. Date: 11 Dec 1992 17:53:22 GMT
  6. Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
  7. Lines: 14
  8. Message-ID: <1gakiiINN2mp@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
  9. References: <1992Dec11.155846.10861@ee.ubc.ca>
  10. Reply-To: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard)
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: g214-1.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Dec11.155846.10861@ee.ubc.ca> bdow@ee.ubc.ca (DOW BRUCE PAUL)  
  14. writes:
  15. > I'm looking for some opinions on Pi. 
  16. > [...]
  17. > Just wondering if any net.philosophers out there have any observations...
  18. > 
  19. > Bruce
  20.  
  21. Actually, I count by Pi's, so I have trouble dealing with integers, even
  22. though they seem to pop up everywhere.  My banker insists on being  
  23. closed-minded and intolerant about all this, but it's my numerical  
  24. orientation:-)
  25.  
  26. bart
  27.