tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 24 21:33:51 2000
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KLIC: nearly pi again
- From: tuvel <[email protected]>
- Subject: KLIC: nearly pi again
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:44:58 -0600
KLIC: nearly pi again
mI' nger vItIv 'ach vIyajchu'be'.
"I enjoy number theory, even though I don't understand it very well."
ja' ghunchu'wI':
> You got the division sentences backwards, but that's forgivable. We
don't
> yet have a lot of experience with mathematics. However, 22/7 is *not*
> equal to 3.14159, and that's an unpardonable error! :-)
chaq jaS vIjatlhnISpu':
Sochlogh boqHa''egh cha'maH cha'; tlhoS chen *pi*.
"Perhaps I should have said it differently:
22/7 almost equals pi."
ja' DujHoD:
> 22/7 rapbe' "pi" bIjatlh 'e' DaHechchugh bIlughbej. "pi"
noHnISlu'chugh vaj
> 336851849443403/107223273857129 lo'lu' 'e' vItungHa'. :-)
355/113 vIlo' jIH. 'u'raj beQ law' 'u'wIj beQ puSmo' naDev *pi*
'oHchu'qu' 355/113.
"*I* use 355/113. Because my universe is less flat than yours, 355/113
equals pi exactly here. >:-)"
- tuv'el