[Kazoo]

Re: Pi Calculated to 4.5 billion decimal places

As opposed to computations that don't involve numbers?

Computation:

The action or process of computing, reckoning, or counting; a method or system of reckoning; arithmetical or mathematical calculation.

Mathematics:

Originally: (a collective term for) geometry, arithmetic, and certain physical sciences involving geometrical reasoning, such as astronomy and optics; spec. the disciplines of the quadrivium collectively. In later use: the science of space, number, quantity, and arrangement, whose methods involve logical reasoning and usually the use of symbolic notation, and which includes geometry, arithmetic, algebra, and analysis; mathematical operations or calculations. Colloq. abbreviated maths, (N. Amer.) math.

Computation is involved in certain maths. Okays? Problem solved.

[Pastor Rune Enoe]

Re: Pi Calculated to 4.5 billion decimal places

Computation involving numbers is mathematics sir.

As opposed to computations that don't involve numbers?

[Brother Temperance]

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No I'm not a "Communiss" since that's not even a word. I'm not a Communist either, which is what you were probably trying to spell. And so what if I travel around? Seeing the world is half the fun of life. Don't your missionaries travel around?

Where've you been travelling to, you International Joo? Venezuela? Cuba? North Korea? Massachusetts?

[Joo]

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Society! "Society!" Oh my GOD, Sirs, what are you - some sort of Communiss? Do you do a lot of Traveling, Fellow?!

No I'm not a "Communiss" since that's not even a word. I'm not a Communist either, which is what you were probably trying to spell. And so what if I travel around? Seeing the world is half the fun of life. Don't your missionaries travel around?

Dividing 30 cubits by 10 cubits is not math, it's just computation:

Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

Computation involving numbers is mathematics sir.

[Kazoo]

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I have read this entire thread with great interest and astonishment. Are you a product of our Godly President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind laws? Did you say you got into college? How do you define Pi?

To answer your questions in order: no, I do not recall ever stating such, and pi can be defined as either the sixteenth letter in the Greek alphabet, corresponding with the English letter p, or a transcendental number which is equal to the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter, having a decimal form beginning 3.14159265..., and commonly approximated to .

[Trent Harvey, Jr.]

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Here in Iraq, in addition to battling against the al Qaeda insurgency, we're battling against time. So in order to save time puttering with all those decimals, in all of our calculations we've rounded Pi down to the nearest whole number, which is 3. You'd be amazed at how much time knocking just a few decimal places saves us in our time spent planning roads, bridges, transportation systems, oil pipelines, and whatnot.

[Brother Temperance]

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And I'll be sure to nominate you for a the Litreary Nobel Prize

You're going to "nominate him for-a" the Prize? What are you, a Godless-a wop-a or something? And what is a Litreary prize, anyway? As far as I'm aware, not even the depraved Europeans give out prizes for rearing people.

[SUV]

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It's called Math ma'am, you know the thing that most people are supposed to learn so they can function in society.

Society! "Society!" Oh my GOD, Sirs, what are you - some sort of Communiss? Do you do a lot of Traveling, Fellow?!

[Pastor Rune Enoe]

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It's called Math ma'am, you know the thing that most people are supposed to learn so they can function in society.

Dividing 30 cubits by 10 cubits is not math, it's just computation:

Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

[Unsaved and Loving It]

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Praise Jesus! We are all in awe of your God-given talents and keen mind, Brother Ernest. I don't know of anyone else in our congregation that could have pulled off such a miraculous computation. GLORY!

I'm sure the other pastors will join me in submitting your name to be considered for this year's Nobel Prize in Arithmatic.

And I'll be sure to nominate you for a the Litreary Nobel Prize

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

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A cubit is roughly equal to eighteen inches, or 1.5 feet. The cubit itself is not a standard unit of measurement (e.g. feet, inches, centimeters, kilometers, etc.) and therefore must be translated to such for any comprehensive distance calculations to hold any validity. I simply translated the numbers into inches, then feet for convenience.

(And forgive me if I am mistaken in this--I've been awake for the last 30 hours or so reading and am probably not thinking entirely clearly right now. )

I have read this entire thread with great interest and astonishment. Are you a product of our Godly President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind laws? Did you say you got into college? How do you define Pi?

[Joo]

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Heh? What's this now? Some sort of inverse ratio of the $avED vs. the un$avED or just what is it? It looks downRight Satanic!

BRING BACK THAT NICE DR. DeVILLE!!!!!

It's called Math ma'am, you know the thing that most people are supposed to learn so they can function in society.

[Brother Temperance]

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(And forgive me if I am mistaken in this--I've been awake for the last 30 hours or so reading and am probably not thinking entirely clearly right now. )

Have you finished the OT yet?

[Kazoo]

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Nevertheless, we're on the cubit system in Freehold-- which I guess explains why the stairs to the courthouse are so uneven.

Aah, of course, good sir. How careless of me to bypass the possibility that you in Landover would use such a system as the cubit.

[H. Montague Worthington]

Re: Pi Calculated to 4.5 billion decimal places

A cubit is roughly equal to eighteen inches, or 1.5 feet. The cubit itself is not a standard unit of measurement (e.g. feet, inches, centimeters, kilometers, etc.) and therefore must be translated to such for any comprehensive distance calculations to hold any validity. I simply translated the numbers into inches, then feet for convenience.

Nevertheless, we're on the cubit system in Freehold-- which I guess explains why the stairs to the courthouse are so uneven.