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Re: Contacting LEGO Australia
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 8 Mar 2002 00:05:29 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.loc.au, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > > well, not EXACTLY, no, but I did hear of a draw that had these winning • numbers:
> > >
> > > 3 9 14 15 26 53
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> > > So there you go (the 9 is out of place but other than that it's
> > > pi to 10 digits)
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> Whoops!
> c /pi to 10 digits/the first 10 digits of pi/
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> > Close, but actually pi to 10 digits is 3.141592654!!
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> "Correct", since the next digit after 2653 is >4 so the 53 rounds up to 54...
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> But ACTUALLY INcorrect since " 3.141592654!! " is actually an invalid
> arithmetic expression. You cannot take factorials of non whole numbers.
Bzzzt. The factorial (and double factorial, !!) can be extended to real &
complex arguments, as discussed here:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Factorial.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DoubleFactorial.html
8?P
> See your nit(1) and raise you one. (2)
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> 1 - it was a non int nit
> 2 - nit++ as it were
I'll be seeing that hand, please!!! [1]
ROSCO
[1] No, I don't know of a triple factorial!!!!
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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.) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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