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Re: Contacting LEGO Australia
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Date: 
Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:48:04 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Ross Crawford writes:
In lugnet.loc.au, Larry Pieniazek writes:

well, not EXACTLY, no, but I did hear of a draw that had these winning • numbers:

3 9 14 15 26 53

So there you go (the 9 is out of place but other than that it's
pi to 10 digits)

Whoops!
c /pi to 10 digits/the first 10 digits of pi/

Close, but actually pi to 10 digits is 3.141592654!!

"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 take factorials of non whole numbers.

See your nit(1) and raise you one. (2)

1 - it was a non int nit
2 - nit++ as it were



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  Re: Contacting LEGO Australia
 
(...) 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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  Re: Contacting LEGO Australia
 
(...) 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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