I propose a Pi Haiku (PIQ), Pi is of certain value, In statistics, invaluable, yet Transcending numerics.
Best, baptiste On 1 June 2011 11:55, Ravi Varadhan <rvarad...@jhmi.edu> wrote: > Nice to know that the `pi' can be sliced in so many different ways! > > There are exactly 3.154 x e08 seconds in a (non-leap) year. So the error in > your approximation is less than 0.4%. > > Ravi. > ________________________________________ > From: Thomas Lumley [tlum...@uw.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 4:41 PM > To: Ravi Varadhan > Cc: Bentley Coffey; Vincy Pyne; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Value of 'pi' > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Ravi Varadhan <rvarad...@jhmi.edu> wrote: >> >> I have also heard (courtesy: John Nash) that `pi' is the ratio of actual >> time it takes to complete your thesis to the anticipated time. > > > And I find it a useful mnemonic that there are pi times ten million > seconds in a year (accurate to better than half a percent). > > -thomas > > -- > Thomas Lumley > Professor of Biostatistics > University of Auckland > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.