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My personal favorite is that there are approximately pi * 10^7 seconds in one year.
by kurtosis 17y ago
My personal favorite is that there are approximately pi * 10^7 seconds in one year.
- Periodic 17y agoNice. And only 0.5% off.
- amalcon 17y agoHah! It takes the Earth about five million seconds to travel through one radian of its orbit. That... seems more useful to know than it actually is.
- blahedo 17y ago"How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury." --Tom Duff, Bell Labs
- ssp 17y ago"pi seconds in a nano-century" is how I remember it.