NP Alabama Pi

desert search for techno allah kortbein at iastate.edu
Mon Jul 3 12:23:39 CDT 2000


"rwan" writes:
>Re: NP Alabama PiI've actually contacted the Alabama State Legislature to
>check whether any such bill was ever proposed and/or passed. The information
>I received was emphatically negative, even though rumours of such being the
>case have been popping up regularly during the last appr. 2 years.
>Pi is - and remains - as yet undifined (beyond the 210 billion digits after
>the decimal point). Amen.

Nitpick - it does not remain "undefined." As a number it is very much
well defined, as far as mathematicians are concerned. We don't know
what its digits are, past the whateverth digit, but that's not the
point.




Josh

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