2Far ★ Posted December 19, 2014 Share #1 Posted December 19, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted December 19, 2014 Share #2 Posted December 19, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #3 Posted December 19, 2014 I got the top line covered. The older I get the smaller the letters get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #4 Posted December 19, 2014 You can keep 17% and I'll take the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted December 19, 2014 Share #5 Posted December 19, 2014 I got the top line covered. The older I get the smaller the letters get. The top line I have covered. The older I get, the more I don't need that many significant digits of Pi. 3.14 suffices for the calculations I do. But my calculator Pi button uses 9 places Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #6 Posted December 19, 2014 The top line I have covered. The older I get, the more I don't need that many significant digits of Pi. 3.14 suffices for the calculations I do. But my calculator Pi button uses 9 places 3.1416 was all I ever needed in my previous career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted December 19, 2014 Share #7 Posted December 19, 2014 3.1416 was all I ever needed in my previous career. In my college drafting class days, the professor told us to use 3.1416 for our calcuations and not the Pi button, so everyone would have the same answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #8 Posted December 19, 2014 In my college drafting class days, the professor told us to use 3.1416 for our calcuations and not the Pi button, so everyone would have the same answer. In my college drafting days we didn't have buttons. We had slide rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted December 19, 2014 Share #9 Posted December 19, 2014 That 's a shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #10 Posted December 19, 2014 That 's a shame Ya, I got to use my first calculator on the job in late '73 and it didn't have a Pi button. We actually had to enter it. Oh what a difficult time it was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted December 19, 2014 Share #11 Posted December 19, 2014 In my college drafting days we didn't have buttons. We had slide rules. That 's a shame Not that bad really, Most of my instructors always allowed for "slide rule accuracy". We used to have competitions between people using calculators and slide rules to see who could get the answer the fastest. The slide usually won, accepting "slide rule accuracy", of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #12 Posted December 19, 2014 Not that bad really, Most of my instructors always allowed for "slide rule accuracy". We used to have competitions between people using calculators and slide rules to see who could get the answer the fastest. The slide usually won, accepting "slide rule accuracy", of course. Ya, slide rules were good enough for NASA, they were good enough for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtyhip Posted December 19, 2014 Share #13 Posted December 19, 2014 Just round that figure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #14 Posted December 19, 2014 Just round that figure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted December 19, 2014 Share #15 Posted December 19, 2014 Ya, slide rules were good enough for NASA, they were good enough for us. Plus they made you actually have to think a little bit, versus calculators. Keeping track of the scientific notation was important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #16 Posted December 19, 2014 Plus they made you actually have to think a little bit, versus calculators. Keeping track of the scientific notation was important. My desk calculator goes to 9 places. I think I have only had to use scientific notation maybe once in the last several years. Excel - expand the cells……. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destination Posted December 19, 2014 Share #17 Posted December 19, 2014 The top line I have covered. The older I get, the more I don't need that many significant digits of Pi. 3.14 suffices for the calculations I do. But my calculator Pi button uses 9 places 3.1416 was all I ever needed in my previous career. Just round that figure. Just round Pi to 3 and be done with it. That should simplify things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted December 19, 2014 Share #18 Posted December 19, 2014 Just round Pi to 3 and be done with it. That should simplify things. No kidding, the metric system is so much easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #19 Posted December 19, 2014 No kidding, the metric system is so much easier. So what is Pi in the metric system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted December 19, 2014 Share #20 Posted December 19, 2014 So what is Pi in the metric system? 10, everything is 10. I think Canadians smoke a lot of pot and like to keep things simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #21 Posted December 19, 2014 10, everything is 10. I think Canadians smoke a lot of pot and like to keep things simple. Where do Kanadians get their pot? It certainly doesn't grow on their frozen tundra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destination Posted December 19, 2014 Share #22 Posted December 19, 2014 British Columbia has a thriving marijuana industry and we've had quite a few grow operations where I live. One former grow op was half a block from my home. The U.S. is a major market for our marijuana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted December 19, 2014 Share #23 Posted December 19, 2014 British Columbia has a thriving marijuana industry and we've had quite a few grow operations where I live. One former grow op was half a block from my home. The U.S. is a major market for our marijuana. Now we have to build fences on both borders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted December 19, 2014 Share #24 Posted December 19, 2014 Just round Pi to 3 and be done with it. That should simplify things. For a quick calculation in my head, I do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted December 19, 2014 Share #25 Posted December 19, 2014 I prefer 3.14162654, because that is near the magical number 7 that is the most that most of us can remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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