Math errors in python
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com
Mon Sep 20 11:48:01 EDT 2004
On 2004-09-20, Andrea Griffini <agriff at tin.it> wrote:
> This is from the Bible...
>
> 007:023 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the
> other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits:
> and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
>
> So it's clear that pi must be 3
If you've only got 1 significant digit in your measured values,
then Pi == 3 is a prefectly reasonable value to use.
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