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Re: non-integers

To: Richard Rees <greyhawke@home.com>
Subject: Re: non-integers
From: Jon Rush <jonathan.rush@sdrc.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:23:25 -0400
You must be an industrial engineer. Us mechanical types prefer 22/7.

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, and Engineering!

Jon Rush

Richard Rees wrote:
> 
> Bah!  For us engineers, pi = 3.  It's close enough for practical purposes,
> plus if you do your work right, they cancel anyway (just like infinity /
> infinity = 1)
> 
> Richard Rees
> 2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2

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