Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!cmcl2!phri!news From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: PI Message-ID: <1990Dec16.135210.11946@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 16 Dec 90 13:52:10 GMT Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 8 This may be a silly question, but other than "because it's there", why have people spent so much time (and money) calculating PI? -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"