"Robert Casey" wrote in message
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But it wasn't Tennessee, it was Indiana. And it wasn't 3, it was 3.2, or
3.3, or 4. The fellow proposing the law (T.I. Record of Posen County, in
1897) was confused by the idea of pi being a non rational number.
REally really confused!

I had an arithemetic teacher in grammar school who thought
that PI = 22/7. Well, he was a bit less than 1% off...


Hi, Bob

Well 22/7 was a simple, fairly close approximation. Obviously, not many
folks memorize a lot of decimal places (which still wouldn't be exact, of
course).

I had an electronics teacher (he was junior man on the totem pole; he was a
drafting teacher actually) who insisted that there was a complex formula to
figure out resonant frequency, but this equation was close enough: frequency
equals capacitance times inductance.

LOL - true story and I was threatened when I disagreed. That was an early
lesson (at age 14) as to what the real world would be like. Now that we
have Bush, I just hope the rest of the world can do our designing for us


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA