23 Apr
2014
23 Apr
'14
5:01 p.m.
Makes it easier for pi charts? On 2014-04-23 18:13, Bill Gosper wrote:
R. Weyhrauch notes that http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=darltext;cc=... (a document older than the dollarsign) prescribes a bunch of tariffs in 90ths instead of %. I thought I had a mathematical motivation, but was wrong. NeilB thought of a historical, rather than mathematical explanation, but it seems decreasingly plausible.
Can someone at least provide a good guess? --rwg _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun