NP Alabama Pi & approx. 3.14 questions

[rwan]

So what IS the point, if any? How is pi NUMERICALLY defined - that certainly
having been quite the question all along - unless all of its digits are
known? What - or who - is a nitpick and who are you?
r.
----- Original Message -----
From: desert search for techno allah <kortbein at iastate.edu>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: NP Alabama Pi


>
> "rwan" writes:
> >Re: NP Alabama Pi
>> I'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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>