Yes, there are many like that : 10 attoparsecs = 1 feet 1 mile = log(5)*km exp(Pi)-Pi = 19,9990999... http://xkcd.com/217/ found in the 80's by me, Neil and a certain John H. C. Simon Plouffe Le 26/04/2012 06:07, Dan Asimov a écrit :
xkcd is wonderful (though once in a while I don't get it at all, when it involves too much insider computer knowledge).
And speaking of approximations, an MIT alum told me around 1993 that
pi seconds ~ 1 nanocentury.
--Dan
Rich wrote:
<< Today's XKCD cartoon has a nice collection of approximations.
There's the ancient expression 6 pi^5 for the mass ratio of the proton to the electron, and the more accurate (e^8 - 10)/phi. Robert Munafo& REIS are at least partially responsible. ________________________________________________________________________________________ It goes without saying that .
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