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