Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!kaarne!ts74113 From: ts74113@kaarne.tut.fi (Timo Saarinen OH3YN) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: PI Message-ID: <1990Dec19.130248.10932@funet.fi> Date: 19 Dec 90 13:02:48 GMT References: <1942@beguine.UUCP> <1990Dec17.150257.3890@phri.nyu.edu> <2473.276cffce@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <2481.276de257@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <2486.276dfd25@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Sender: news@funet.fi (#News ) Reply-To: ts74113@kaarne.tut.fi (Timo Saarinen OH3YN) Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland Lines: 24 In article <2486.276dfd25@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick) writes: >When I admitted my gaffe here, someone passed this along to me: > >How I wish I could recapture pi.... > >Eureka! cried the great inventor. > >Christmas pudding, Christmas pie > >Is at the problem's very center. > >[Hint: number of letters in each word mean something. >] One day, one friend of mine told me how to remember the value of pi with fifteen digits: How I need a drink. Alcoholic, of course - after the heavy chapters describing quantum mechanics. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | - InterNet : ts74113@tut.fi | There's never enough time to do all | | - HamRadio : OH3YN@OH3TR.FIN.EU | the nothing you want! (Calvin&Hobbes) | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+