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[Phil Stracchino]

Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Says Phil Stracchino ...
>> Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>>>  Quoth Phil Stracchino ...
>>>> http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_341.html
>>> ... and then there's the old story about the physicist, the 
>>> mathematician, and the engineer....
>> Which one?  :)  The cooktop, the bunker, ...?
> 
> The value of pi, natch:
> 
> The physicist goes on at some length about the cosmic forces involved in
> establishing the roundness of things, and finally says that pi is just an
> expression of the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference.
> 
> "Well, sure," responds the mathematician, "but it's more convenient to
> express it as a number.  3.14159, say."
> 
> Replies the engineer, "Yep.  Pi's about three." 

Huh.  I hadn't heard that one.


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