On 1/8/19 1:31 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > I first encountered it about 60 years ago, in fifth grade. Our textbook > said, "PI is about 3.1416 or 22/7." Our teacher insisted that that > sentence meant "PI is about 3.1416, or exactly 22/7." I argued it. I > pointed out that 22/7 was about 3.1429, and "why would they say 'about > 3.1416' instead of 'about 3.1429' if it were actually 22/7?" I got sent > to the principal's office. My father, who COULD recite a dozen digits > of PI gave me a hard time about "staying out of trouble". >
3.142 was good enough for Edward Elgar. --Chuck