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To: ambrose
there doesn't appear to be any genuine mathamaticians out there...

The correct answer (according to my trig and calc teachers)

radical sign pi
24 posted on 12/08/2001 2:38:57 PM PST by birbear
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To: birbear; classygreeneyedblonde
Hey! I'm a mathematician (at least I play one on TV).

Actually, the series I was thinking of gives (pi^2)/6. There really is no answer to "what is the square root of pi". The only interesting place that that number shows up is in the formula for the Bell Curve.

33 posted on 12/08/2001 2:46:49 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: birbear
For all practical purposes Pi = 3.14

A closer practical number is 22/7 =3.1428571

Square root of 3.14 =1.772

Square root of 3.1428571 = 1.7728105

It would be unusual to need it any closer than either of the above.

37 posted on 12/08/2001 2:48:29 PM PST by BADJOE
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To: birbear
A+ for the only correct answer.

(pi)1/2 is the correct answer and it's exact!

62 posted on 12/08/2001 3:03:40 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: birbear
PI is NOT radical...... Conservative, perhaps, but not radical.
72 posted on 12/08/2001 3:11:42 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
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To: birbear
radical sign pi

Dammt radicals! They're at the root of everything!

89 posted on 12/08/2001 3:35:01 PM PST by BradyLS
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