On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:53:04PM -0500, Dan Drake wrote: > The other day I learned that Ramanujan (a famous Indian mathematician > from the WWI era) had an expression that matched pi to 9 decimal > places: > > (98.5 - 1/11)^(1/4) > 97.5 perhaps? And I only get 8 decimal places. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota