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Re: Contacting LEGO Australia
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 8 Mar 2002 00:35:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > 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:
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> > > > 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)
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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.
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> Bzzzt. The factorial (and double factorial, !!) can be extended to real &
> complex arguments, as discussed here:
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> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Factorial.html
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DoubleFactorial.html
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.)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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