NP Alabama Pi & approx. 3.14 questions

[Dave Monroe]

Ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.  Just so happens that
the numeric represntation of it (in base ten mathematics at LEAST, and I imagine
in any mathemiatics based on any whole number) apparently goes on ad infinitum,
without repeating any particular pattern ...

rwan wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > josh blog: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~kortbein/blog/
> >       tdr: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~kortbein/tdr/
> >