On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 at 11:05AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > I would like to hear from Chuck what he was doing that required 10 > digits instead of 8 digits. That's pretty interesting. Me too. The other day I learned that Ramanujan (a famous Indian mathematician from the WWI era) had an expression that matched pi to 9 decimal places: (98.5 - 1/11)^(1/4) I figured out the other day that if the above quantity and pi were both measuring miles, the difference between those two numbers would be about the width of a human hair. Over three miles long, and these distances differ by a hairsbreadth! That's 9 digits of precision. I wonder what you'd need 10 for. Dan -- Ceci n'est pas une .signature. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060720/fb44809f/attachment.pgp