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Re: Contacting LEGO Australia
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 05:23:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Richie Dulin writes:
> > > 
> > > While that may be true, you're not claiming that an approximation of pi is
> > > 3.141592654!! are you?
> > 
> > Certainly! Just not a very good one...although it's somewhere betwee 3 & 8, • so
> > it's in the ball park...
> 
> ...but if the approximation's nearer to 8, your ball park could have a lot
> of surplus turf

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



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  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...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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