Nice to know that the `pi' can be sliced in so many different ways!
There are exactly 3.154 x e08 seconds in a (non-leap) year. So the error in
your approximation is less than 0.4%.
Ravi.
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From: Thomas Lumley [tlum...@uw.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 4:41 PM
To: Ravi Varadhan
Cc: Bentley Coffey; Vincy Pyne; r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Value of 'pi'
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
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Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Auckland
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