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Re: [OM] It'sPi Day!--now Day after Pi Day!-- Mandatory list assignments

Subject: Re: [OM] It'sPi Day!--now Day after Pi Day!-- Mandatory list assignments
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:52:46 -0700
On 3/16/2016 1:16 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
Moose wrties:
<<The point is that "last significant digit" for any actual use will not occupy 
a computer for long at all.

Oh, in that context not long at all.  Thirty-seven digits would allow enough 
precision it inscribe a circle as large as the known universe approximately to 
within the accuracy of the width of a proton.  :-))

What's the width of a probability function?

Imp Probable Moose

PS: And Who's on first.

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What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?

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