On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Ravi Varadhan <rvarad...@jhmi.edu> wrote: > > I have also heard (courtesy: John Nash) that `pi' is the ratio of actual time > it takes to complete your thesis to the anticipated time.
And I find it a useful mnemonic that there are pi times ten million seconds in a year (accurate to better than half a percent). -thomas -- Thomas Lumley Professor of Biostatistics University of Auckland ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.