[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Joost van de Griek]

On 4/13/07 4:52 PM, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

> 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."

I wouldn't trust that mathematician. Chances are he's a statistician, or
worse, an economist, posing as a mathematician.

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