OT: I never knew...

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed Dec 17 18:54:05 2003

On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 05:17 PM, Joe wrote:

> 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".
>>
>> OK,
>> what is the IEEE floating point representation of PI?
>> "3.1.459 in binary" does NOT work.

Google thinks 335 / 113 = 2.96460177

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> 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 - 18:54:05 GMT