Re: non-integers

[Jon Rush <jonathan.rush@sdrc.com>]

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