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  • N Nish Nishant

    Isaac Sasson wrote: 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point I know Pi as 3.142 :-( This means I am not a programmer???? damn! No one tells me these things! Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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    Roger Allen
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    All from the top of my head: Pi 3.1415926535979 Root 2 1.414213562 Root 3 1.732050808 Root 4 2 :-D Root 5 2.236 Thats about it. I seem to recal I used to knowm ln10 This lot makes me a particulary sad man.... :(( Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016

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    • N Nish Nishant

      Isaac Sasson wrote: 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point I know Pi as 3.142 :-( This means I am not a programmer???? damn! No one tells me these things! Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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      Michael P Butler
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      I wouldn't worry about. In the last 12 years of programming, I've never had to use pi once. Eaten a lot of it but not used it. Michael :-)

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      • N Nish Nishant

        Isaac Sasson wrote: 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point I know Pi as 3.142 :-( This means I am not a programmer???? damn! No one tells me these things! Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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        Konstantin Vasserman
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        Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: 3.142 Damn! This is one digit more that what I remember... :)

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          All from the top of my head: Pi 3.1415926535979 Root 2 1.414213562 Root 3 1.732050808 Root 4 2 :-D Root 5 2.236 Thats about it. I seem to recal I used to knowm ln10 This lot makes me a particulary sad man.... :(( Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016

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          Navin
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          You forgot e: e = 2.718 The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

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          • I ISIS55

            I've been reading some book by Andre LaMothe, which is of course filled with witty remarks and great sense of humor. And then I started thinking (processing for you hung up dudes), programmers are a weird nation: 1. We have a strange sense of humor only we understand (I showed my brother a flash cartoon yesterday and he thought I was crazy for laughing so much). 2. We spend our days talking or thinking about stuff no sain person should understand. 3. We use Microsoft products out of choice (only we know there are options...). 3. We cry when the HD fails. 4. We sometimes spend days and nights in front of this big flashy box unaware that a world exists out there (kind of like small children). 5. We understand MFC while most people would probably expect to see it only on "Ripley's - believe it or not". 6. We make structures designed to contain the full details of every Startrek character. 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point. 8. We hardly shave. 9. We have an XT 8086 processor hanging above our dashboard. 10. We buy PlayBot for the articles. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large.

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            Mauricio Ritter
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            11. We drink coffe instead of water :eek: Mauricio Teichmann Ritter

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            • R Roger Allen

              All from the top of my head: Pi 3.1415926535979 Root 2 1.414213562 Root 3 1.732050808 Root 4 2 :-D Root 5 2.236 Thats about it. I seem to recal I used to knowm ln10 This lot makes me a particulary sad man.... :(( Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016

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              Jason Hooper
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              From the top of my head: Pi = 3.141592653589793238462643383279488419706939937510 2^24 = 16,777,216 (my fave) :suss: -Jason nirgle.bitdevil.com SonorkID: 100.12194

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              • K Konstantin Vasserman

                Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: 3.142 Damn! This is one digit more that what I remember... :)

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                Eddie Velasquez
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                Isn't PI == 3.1? :-D Foot-and-Mouth disease is believed to be the first virus unable to spread through Microsoft Outlook

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                • I ISIS55

                  I've been reading some book by Andre LaMothe, which is of course filled with witty remarks and great sense of humor. And then I started thinking (processing for you hung up dudes), programmers are a weird nation: 1. We have a strange sense of humor only we understand (I showed my brother a flash cartoon yesterday and he thought I was crazy for laughing so much). 2. We spend our days talking or thinking about stuff no sain person should understand. 3. We use Microsoft products out of choice (only we know there are options...). 3. We cry when the HD fails. 4. We sometimes spend days and nights in front of this big flashy box unaware that a world exists out there (kind of like small children). 5. We understand MFC while most people would probably expect to see it only on "Ripley's - believe it or not". 6. We make structures designed to contain the full details of every Startrek character. 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point. 8. We hardly shave. 9. We have an XT 8086 processor hanging above our dashboard. 10. We buy PlayBot for the articles. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large.

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                  Stan Shannon
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                  Isaac Sasson wrote: We have an XT 8086 processor hanging above our dashboard. Damn! I guess I'm not a programmer after all... :((

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                  • N Nish Nishant

                    Isaac Sasson wrote: 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point I know Pi as 3.142 :-( This means I am not a programmer???? damn! No one tells me these things! Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                    Steven Hicks n 1
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                    I know it as 3.14259 Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: This means I am not a programmer???? damn! No one tells me these things! Same as me!! ;) -Steven Visit Ltpb.8m.com
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                    • I ISIS55

                      I've been reading some book by Andre LaMothe, which is of course filled with witty remarks and great sense of humor. And then I started thinking (processing for you hung up dudes), programmers are a weird nation: 1. We have a strange sense of humor only we understand (I showed my brother a flash cartoon yesterday and he thought I was crazy for laughing so much). 2. We spend our days talking or thinking about stuff no sain person should understand. 3. We use Microsoft products out of choice (only we know there are options...). 3. We cry when the HD fails. 4. We sometimes spend days and nights in front of this big flashy box unaware that a world exists out there (kind of like small children). 5. We understand MFC while most people would probably expect to see it only on "Ripley's - believe it or not". 6. We make structures designed to contain the full details of every Startrek character. 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point. 8. We hardly shave. 9. We have an XT 8086 processor hanging above our dashboard. 10. We buy PlayBot for the articles. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large.

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                      Isaac Sasson wrote: 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point. Hmmm... I know pi == 4 * atn(1) for languages that do not have predefined pi constants... This way, I optimize my memory and save 30 bytes of brain cells... Crivo Automated Credit Assessment

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                        Isaac Sasson wrote: 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point. Hmmm... I know pi == 4 * atn(1) for languages that do not have predefined pi constants... This way, I optimize my memory and save 30 bytes of brain cells... Crivo Automated Credit Assessment

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                        Mehdi Mousavi
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                        atn? you mean Arc Tangant? If so then atn(1) = 45 and 4 * 45 = 180 which has got nothing to do with PI. :eek: I would also like to save 30 cells too, so would you please let me know what did you mean by atn? Cheers, Mehdi

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                          Isaac Sasson wrote: We have an XT 8086 processor hanging above our dashboard. Damn! I guess I'm not a programmer after all... :((

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                          I'm not quite there either, but I do have one of the original/flawed Pentium CPU cores on my keychain... :-)

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                          • I ISIS55

                            I've been reading some book by Andre LaMothe, which is of course filled with witty remarks and great sense of humor. And then I started thinking (processing for you hung up dudes), programmers are a weird nation: 1. We have a strange sense of humor only we understand (I showed my brother a flash cartoon yesterday and he thought I was crazy for laughing so much). 2. We spend our days talking or thinking about stuff no sain person should understand. 3. We use Microsoft products out of choice (only we know there are options...). 3. We cry when the HD fails. 4. We sometimes spend days and nights in front of this big flashy box unaware that a world exists out there (kind of like small children). 5. We understand MFC while most people would probably expect to see it only on "Ripley's - believe it or not". 6. We make structures designed to contain the full details of every Startrek character. 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point. 8. We hardly shave. 9. We have an XT 8086 processor hanging above our dashboard. 10. We buy PlayBot for the articles. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large.

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                            Isaac Sasson wrote: 10. We buy PlayBot for the articles. Does or has anyone actually ever honestly and truthfully bought a PlayBoy for the articles? I know people say they do but is that just a cover? I know I would not buy it for the articles. Isaac Sasson wrote: 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point. Amazing how maths and good memory seem to be requesites for being good with computers. I failed maths and my memory is terrible, yet I am good enough with computers to make a decent living out of them. Isaac Sasson wrote: . We spend our days talking or thinking about stuff no sain person should understand. LOL! I think the Lounge is a prime example of that. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge

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                              From the top of my head: Pi = 3.141592653589793238462643383279488419706939937510 2^24 = 16,777,216 (my fave) :suss: -Jason nirgle.bitdevil.com SonorkID: 100.12194

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                              Jason Hooper wrote: From the top of my head: Pi = 3.141592653589793238462643383279488419706939937510 Please tell me you didn't get that from the top of your head.... :eek: Simon Hey, it looks like you're writing a letter! Sonork ID 100.10024

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                              • M Mehdi Mousavi

                                atn? you mean Arc Tangant? If so then atn(1) = 45 and 4 * 45 = 180 which has got nothing to do with PI. :eek: I would also like to save 30 cells too, so would you please let me know what did you mean by atn? Cheers, Mehdi

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                                Yeah, I mean it: All languages I worked with measure angles in radians, not degrees, so: atn(1) = 45 degrees = Pi/4 radians 4 * atn(1) = 180 degrees = Pi Crivo Automated Credit Assessment

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                                • E Eddie Velasquez

                                  Isn't PI == 3.1? :-D Foot-and-Mouth disease is believed to be the first virus unable to spread through Microsoft Outlook

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                                  Don't know, but I'm pretty sure that (int)Pi == 3 Crivo Automated Credit Assessment

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                                  • S Steven Hicks n 1

                                    I know it as 3.14259 Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: This means I am not a programmer???? damn! No one tells me these things! Same as me!! ;) -Steven Visit Ltpb.8m.com
                                    Looking for more tutorials? Ltpb.8m.com/Tutorial
                                    3D Image Library: Ltpb.8m.com/Image
                                    Surf the web faster than ever: http://www.404Browser.com

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                                    Eric Gunnerson msft
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                                    I know it as 3.14259 **** You know you're a programmer when you read a post like this and the first thing you think is "that 2 should be a 1". I'm afraid I don't rate very high on the pi scale, all I can do is: 3.1415926535 without looking it up. To my chagrin, I just did look it up, and realized that the last 5 should be rounded to a 6.

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                                    • I ISIS55

                                      I've been reading some book by Andre LaMothe, which is of course filled with witty remarks and great sense of humor. And then I started thinking (processing for you hung up dudes), programmers are a weird nation: 1. We have a strange sense of humor only we understand (I showed my brother a flash cartoon yesterday and he thought I was crazy for laughing so much). 2. We spend our days talking or thinking about stuff no sain person should understand. 3. We use Microsoft products out of choice (only we know there are options...). 3. We cry when the HD fails. 4. We sometimes spend days and nights in front of this big flashy box unaware that a world exists out there (kind of like small children). 5. We understand MFC while most people would probably expect to see it only on "Ripley's - believe it or not". 6. We make structures designed to contain the full details of every Startrek character. 7. We know the value of Pi up to 30 characters beyond the floating point. 8. We hardly shave. 9. We have an XT 8086 processor hanging above our dashboard. 10. We buy PlayBot for the articles. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large.

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                                      Eric Gunnerson msft
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                                      You know you're a programmer if your holiday lights are operated by microcontroller. What? Your's aren't? (I have 3 68HC11 doing custom animation in my display. Here's an article on one of them http://www.nutsvolts.com/PDF\_Files/light\_effects.pdf) On, and I have one more. You know you're a programmer when you're at the ATM (or the self-checkout place at the supermarket), and you think, "a monkey could design a better UI than this..."

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                                        You know you're a programmer if your holiday lights are operated by microcontroller. What? Your's aren't? (I have 3 68HC11 doing custom animation in my display. Here's an article on one of them http://www.nutsvolts.com/PDF\_Files/light\_effects.pdf) On, and I have one more. You know you're a programmer when you're at the ATM (or the self-checkout place at the supermarket), and you think, "a monkey could design a better UI than this..."

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                                        Eric Gunnerson (msft) wrote: You know you're a programmer when you're at the ATM (or the self-checkout place at the supermarket), and you think, "a monkey could design a better UI than this..." Testify!! Those ATMs have some pretty poor UIs... some of them date back to the 70s (you know, those ones with the small monochrome 80-character-line monitors, sometimes the name of the bank is spelled out in the individual-letter-pattern) yuck. Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor

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                                        • S Steven Hicks n 1

                                          I know it as 3.14259 Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: This means I am not a programmer???? damn! No one tells me these things! Same as me!! ;) -Steven Visit Ltpb.8m.com
                                          Looking for more tutorials? Ltpb.8m.com/Tutorial
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                                          Surf the web faster than ever: http://www.404Browser.com

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                                          BlameUS
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                                          "I know it as 3.14259" That's why the circle you draw is shaped like an egg (it's 3.14159..., dude) ;)

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