[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Says Phil Stracchino ...
> Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> >  Quoth Phil Stracchino ...
> >> http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_341.html
> > 
> > ... and then there's the old story about the physicist, the 
> > mathematician, and the engineer....
> 
> Which one?  :)  The cooktop, the bunker, ...?

The value of pi, natch:

The physicist goes on at some length about the cosmic forces involved in
establishing the roundness of things, and finally says that pi is just an
expression of the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference.

"Well, sure," responds the mathematician, "but it's more convenient to
express it as a number.  3.14159, say."

Replies the engineer, "Yep.  Pi's about three." 

-Shel