- 1. non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: John Eagan <johneagan@toltbbs.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:47:05 -0400
- Jeff Lloyd went and typed: Well, which is it, since that, of course, is not "pi" (hey, where are the greek alphabet letters on this keyboard?), but an approximation of pi. JLE (guy with "3.141592654"
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01262.html (7,686 bytes)
- 2. Re: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: "Arthur Emerson" <vreihen@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 03:11:06 GMT
- If you think that's bad, I just had a high school science flashback of 6.02 X 10^23 . I'll be darned if I remember what it was (Avogadro's number maybe?) or what significance it has in my life, but I
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01308.html (8,298 bytes)
- 3. Re: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Rees" <greyhawke@home.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:42:54 -0500
- Bah! For us engineers, pi = 3. It's close enough for practical purposes, plus if you do your work right, they cancel anyway (just like infinity / infinity = 1) Richard Rees 2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01323.html (7,352 bytes)
- 4. Re: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: jac73@daimlerchrysler.com
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:22:05 -0400
- 6.02x10^23 = Avagadro's Number, the number of molecules in one mole of a substance. Useful in chemistry and sometimes in quantum physics. (-b +- SQRT(b^2-4ac))/2a = The Quadratic Formula, useful for
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01360.html (7,758 bytes)
- 5. RE: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: "Linnhoff, Eric" <elinnhoff@smmc.saint-lukes.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:40:50 -0500
- You forgot 2+2=4. The number of tablets of aspirin it's gonna take to get rid of the headache all those formulas give this simple caveman. ;^) Ugg. Me smell food. Eric Linnhoff in KC 1998 Dodge Neon
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01362.html (8,437 bytes)
- 6. RE: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: "Arthur Emerson" <vreihen@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:27:47 GMT
- You mean that you *finally* figured out how to take the "Linnhoff-proof" cap off the bottle??? :-) My, my, we're making progress. If you keep it up at this pace, maybe we'll be able to get you to sto
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01374.html (8,918 bytes)
- 7. RE: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: brandon.fetch@ey.com
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:37:14 -0500
- -Arthur ("Parents, don't let your kids grow up to be like Linnhoff" edition.) But I WANNA be like Linnhoff! I mean, c'mon! He drives a Neon AND he eats meat! WooHoo!@ Brandon DS 86 '99 Neon R/T ** No
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01376.html (8,592 bytes)
- 8. RE: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: "Linnhoff, Eric" <elinnhoff@smmc.saint-lukes.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:36:28 -0500
- Yeah, well, just don't _drive_ like me and you'll be okay. ;^) Eric Linnhoff in KC 1998 Dodge Neon R/T eric10mm@qni.com "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingw
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01377.html (8,322 bytes)
- 9. RE: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: "Linnhoff, Eric" <elinnhoff@smmc.saint-lukes.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:00:02 -0500
- Yeah, well, mid pack ain't shit man. ;^) But at least I finished better this year than I did last year and had mucho fun doing it. And out of 2 years at Nationals I finally got one clean run in on th
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01393.html (8,942 bytes)
- 10. Re: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: Scott Knight <scott@scottknight.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:18:11 -0400
- I can't believe I am contributing to this. Doesn't G stand for Giga, as in Trillion? I could swear that you actually need 1.21 Jigawatts, which would be something more on the order of a Really Big Nu
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01397.html (8,278 bytes)
- 11. RE: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: jac73@daimlerchrysler.com
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:11:11 -0400
- Well, I could've gotten into the heat transfer and the fluid dynamics (both incompressible, which is relatively straightforward, and compressible, which involves partial differential equations and i
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01403.html (8,674 bytes)
- 12. Re: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: John Eagan <johneagan@toltbbs.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:01:27 -0400
- Well, hey, we were talking about silly car numbers anyway, not the Fudge Factor and tolerances.<g> Ooh! I know! Let's cover the difference between precision and accuracy! Maybe that will distract peo
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01421.html (8,141 bytes)
- 13. Re: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: "Charles R. Schultz" <n2pua4@peoplepc.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:53:25 -0500
- Just as I was reaching for the delete button, I noticed the imprecise alignment of the words "ladies" and "participants" which, when scanning, might be inaccurately read as "ladies pants." YMMV. Back
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01431.html (8,557 bytes)
- 14. Re: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Rees" <greyhawke@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:28:35 -0500
- Actually, c is even more beautiful in metric - 3x10^8m/s. So much cleaner, plus its about the same as pi x 10^8 (not really, but close enough) How about one of the most arbitrary values (not) on the
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01433.html (9,661 bytes)
- 15. Re: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Rush <jonathan.rush@sdrc.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:23:25 -0400
- You must be an industrial engineer. Us mechanical types prefer 22/7. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, and Engineering! Jon Rush
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01493.html (7,816 bytes)
- 16. Re: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Rees" <greyhawke@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:48:16 -0500
- Nope, electrical. Don't have to deal with pi much on a regular basis, so we don't care too much. Besides, 22/7ths is just too big... Close also counts in hydrogen bombs, and other weapons of mass des
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01505.html (8,341 bytes)
- 17. RE: non-integers (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Fuhrmann" <bfuhrman@isd.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:24:20 -0500
- Nah, the only thing related to pi that IE's care about, is how fast can you cut and serve it. William H. Fuhrmann, PE, BSIE UW Madison. Design Engineer, Toro Commercial Engineering
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg01533.html (7,409 bytes)
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