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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: PI
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Date: 20 Dec 90 03:59:23 GMT
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In article <1979@beguine.UUCP> Richard.Milward@samba (Richard Milward) writes:
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<Ok, so I'm a day or 2 late...
<The book I attempted to refer to is _A History of Pi_
<by Petr Beckmann, St. Martin's Press, (c) 1971
<Library of Congress catalog card no. 74-32539
<(no ISBN number listed)

It's pretty good, except for the anti-socialist propaganda....

<Lots of approximation methods.  No mnemonic aids.

My copy (third edition) includes three or four mnemonic aids, including some
for French and German.  And I wouldn't say that it contains "[l]ots of
approximation methods"; there are much better sources.

<Almost forgot: using only 1-ohm resistors, how many will
<it take, in any electrical network, to approximate pi
<to within 10^^-6 ?  I'll post some answers next week...

One.  Cut out a strip of paper of width twice the length of the resistor,
draw a line down the middle,....  :-)

					--Scott

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