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From: jroth@allvax.enet.dec.com (Jim Roth)
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Subject: Re: Program for Calculating PI
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Date: 4 Apr 91 23:57:48 GMT
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In article <1991Apr4.150053.29873@linus.mitre.org>, bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes...

>WHAT IS SO * SPECIAL ABOUT COMPUTING PI AS OPPOSED TO SOME OTHER NUMBER???

    "I am ashamed to tell you how man digits I carried in the computation,
     having no other business at the time"

     - I. Newton, quoted in "A History of PI"