On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 at 04:21PM -0500, John J. Trammell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:53:04PM -0500, Dan Drake wrote: > > 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) > > > > 97.5 perhaps? And I only get 8 decimal places. Ah, yes. And yeah, I see they differ in the 9th decimal place: the number above (with 97.5) to 15 places is 3.14159265258265 and pi to 15 places is 3.14159265358979 at least according to Mathematica. 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/e2036ca0/attachment.pgp