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
To: BADJOE
I saw a lecture recently where they talked about normed spaces. There, you could make pi many different things depending on the norm. Could be anything from 3 to 8. Lucky we don't live in those worlds, though.
To: BADJOE
For all practical purposes Pi = 3.14 I agree, BadJoe, I like the rounding off for practical purposes.
Usually, I even go so far as to round that, BadJoe, for simplicity' sake.
- I round odd numbers down, so I put Pi to the nearest small odd number, which brings it to 1.
- Because then, since I like to calculate square roots exactly, I am easily able to determine that the SR of 1 is 1.00000000.
- So, since that is odd, then I round that down to the nearest integer, which makes it zero or 0.00000000000
- So, for all practical purposes Square Root of Pi = 0
;>)
289 posted on
12/09/2001 10:49:14 AM PST by
bwteim
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