OT: I never knew...

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Dec 17 17:17:15 2003

At 02:43 PM 12/17/03 -0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Patrick Rigney wrote:
>> Somebody just showed me "Google calculator". Go to google and enter any of
>> the following:
>> 0xf342 - 54
>> 38891 in octal
>> 10kg * 4m/s^2
>> 26tbsp
>> I guess I can throw away my 27S now. :-) --Patrick
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>Their "complete instructions" suck. They don't even list all of the
>operators! (such as your use above of "in octal".
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>OK,
>what is the IEEE floating point representation of PI?
>"3.1.459 in binary" does NOT work.

   I don't know but 355/113 is easy to remember and is accuarate to about 6
places. That's what we used to use on computer languages that didn't have
PI predefined. (Boy I'm dating myself!)

   Joe
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Received on Wed Dec 17 2003 - 17:17:15 GMT