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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Sunburn.Stanford.EDU!pratt
  3. From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
  4. Subject: Re: Philosophy of Pi
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec11.202521.1436@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  7. Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University.
  8. References: <1992Dec11.155846.10861@ee.ubc.ca> <1gakiiINN2mp@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
  9. Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:25:21 GMT
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  12. In article <1gakiiINN2mp@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard) writes:
  13. >
  14. >Actually, I count by Pi's, so I have trouble dealing with integers, even
  15. >though they seem to pop up everywhere.  My banker insists on being  
  16. >closed-minded and intolerant about all this, but it's my numerical  
  17. >orientation:-)
  18.  
  19. No wonder.  You should be seeing a baker, not a banker.
  20.  
  21. Are pop-up's anything like pop-overs?
  22. -- 
  23. Vaughan Pratt                All knowledge resides in the going odds
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