Happy Pi Day!

[Heikki R]

For you anglos it's pie, for the rest (at least in Europe), pee. So unfair.
On 14 Mar 2015 15:27, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

>  A.  And ...53 seconds
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Mar 14, 2015, at 8:22 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.wired.com/2013/03/can-you-determine-pi-with-a-pendulum/
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> you can get a value of pi using a pendulum. Well, you need a few other
> things: the period of a pendulum (with a small amplitude) and length L is:
>
> [image: Screenshot 3 9 13 9 34 pm]
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> Further, I said that the period of a pendulum with a length of 1 meter is
> 2 seconds. This would mean that pi squared would be g (the gravitational
> field in N/kg) – which it is.
>
> On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Counting the seconds I think it will reach nine....( although I don't
>> know them)
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> > On Mar 14, 2015, at 7:38 AM, Laura Kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > And today it will reach seven decimals:
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>> > 3/14/15  9:26
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>> > Laura
>> >
>> >
>> > Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > http://www.piday.org
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>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day
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>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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