On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:36:39PM +0200, Musan Antal wrote:
> The discussion about PI reminds me another funny quote:
>
> The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to
> constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every
> appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA
> statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This
> also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
> -- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
Here is another funny pi quote (appearing in a footnote in a book on
VLSI design):
"pi = sqrt(10) for small values of pi"
With apologies for the increasing off-topicness,
Tom
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