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(...) numbers: (...) Close, but actually pi to 10 digits is 3.141592654!! ROSCO (Pickin those nits again!) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Whoops! c /pi to 10 digits/the first 10 digits of pi/ (...) "Correct", since the next digit after 2653 is >4 so the 53 rounds up to 54... But ACTUALLY INcorrect since " 3.141592654!! " is actually an invalid arithmetic expression. You cannot (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Bzzzt. The factorial (and double factorial, !!) can be extended to real & complex arguments, as discussed here: (URL)See your nit(1) and raise you one. (2) (...) I'll be seeing that hand, please!!! [1] ROSCO [1] No, I don't know of a triple (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I guess I shoulda looked harder: (URL) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) While that may be true, you're not claiming that an approximation of pi is 3.141592654!! are you? Cheers Richie (who's happy to use 3.1 or 25/8 as an approximation.) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Just don't go to a quintuple factorial: "Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of a diseased mind" -Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man) Cheers Richie (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Certainly! Just not a very good one...although it's somewhere betwee 3 & 8, so it's in the ball park... ROSCO (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) an EXTENSION of factorial to reals and complex numbers... NOT that factorial itself works with reals. You're holding a busted flush. (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ...but if the approximation's nearer to 8, your ball park could have a lot of surplus turf Cheers Richie (who wonders whether they turf entire ball parks anyway...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes, except for the dirt parts of the infield (first and third base lines, the first to third swath, the pitchers mound, the part from the mound to home plate, etc.) At least in Major League parks they do, unless it's astroturf they are using (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) 54... (...) Double factorial equation (8) clearly states "Similarly, the double factorial can be extended to complex arguments as: [eqn image that I can't be bothered linking to]", similarly Factorial eqn (7). Which by my book means these (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) so (...) 8?) A quick calculation gives about 3.32 (but I could have stuffed it up) which isn't the best approximation of pi I've ever seen, but baseball's a silly game, anyway... ROSCO (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It does indeed vary. By my book it's clear as day that an extension of something means the original something *doesn't* apply in the extended area. (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Fine, Lar, but the eqn I cited defines z!! for all complex z[1], so 3.141592654!! *is* a valid expression, whether you wanna call it double factorial or not. ROSCO [1] In fact, it doesn't - it erroneously uses x on the right side of the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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