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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
One of my twins knows it to 51, won challenge at school yesterday. The other knows it to about mid-20s.

If you are calculating the circumference of a pizza, you don't need many digits. But try it with the circumference of an orbit, say of the International Space Station. The digits begin to really matter. I know it out to about 15 and much prefer simply using a calculator!

3 posted on 03/15/2018 2:56:08 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: Reno89519

Supposedly, if you know ok to thirty digits then you can measure a circle as big as the known universe.


6 posted on 03/15/2018 3:06:49 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Reno89519

I generally round it to closest 10,000th: 3.1416. That works well for any use I have.


33 posted on 03/15/2018 6:20:42 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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