The discrepancy is only 4/5. Why must you be so fussy? --Dan Rich wrote: << 31.8 = 159/5 --------- Quoting Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net>:

Mike Stay wrote:

<< 31.80000000332526 = (exp(Pi)-ln(3))/ln(2) . . .

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Fascinating, especially because this says

(exp(Pi)-ln(3))/ln(2) ~ 163/5, . . .

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