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Re: Pi

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Dec 11, 2002
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It's not possible to have "infinite" accuracy, 'cause there could ALWAYS be
more digits, that's what infinite means.

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message -----
From: <jbrown1050 at hotpop.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Pi


>
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:12:43PM -0600, Kat wrote:
> > It's
> > my understanding that in astronomy, in the million of calculations
> > involved in
> > travel away from earth, significant errors can creep in at rediculously
> > small
> > decimal point places, and if eliminated, can save fuel. But i don't know
> > at
> > which point it stops being significant versus a waste of cpu
> > horsepower/time.
> >
> > Kat
>
> I'm not sure if any one does. Hence the quest for on-going (perhaps one
day
> infinite??) accuracy.
>
> jbrown
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