This is from the Old Testament. (found in my History of Pi book).
"Also, he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
Egyptians and Babylonians had a much better approximation of Pi, long before the Bible was written. The Babylonians calculated Pi to be 3 1/8. The Egyptions had it at 4 * (8/9) ^ 2.
I'm not saying that the Bible was making an absolute claim that Pi was 3, as they're attempting a general description of an object in the quote. But my main point was that this senator took it literally, and I'm sure he had a large backing of complete idiots.
I can't remember the details exactly, but a while back, a senator tried to have Pi officially changed to 3 because that was what was stated in the Bible.
And if you actually read the article, you would have realized that Jim Oberg is still going to write the book, but with alternative funding.
For a second there, I thought you had written "alternative ending" instead of "funding". Since NASA's not going to cough up the money, the new version will end up with the spaceship returning to Earth with Apes at the damn controls.
A few months ago, I had an offer from this Dr. Fafa dude in Nigeria. He wanted me to hold onto $21,320,000 for him. I told him that since I live in Canada, I needed to know how much that would be in Canadian dollars. He wrote back and said it'd be $21,319,999,998.44 Canadian. Near as I can tell, he musta multiplied by a thousand, and since the U.S./Canada exchange rate at the time was $1.56, he then SUBTRACTED $1.56 from $21,320,000,000. Of all the Nigerian scam artists, I have to deal with the Dan Quayle of the bunch.
A friend of mine bought a cd-rom drive, tried to install it himself, and didn't know what he was doing. He calls me up and asks me to come down to his place and take a look. When I got to his place I could smell smoke coming out of his computer. Turns out that he decided it wasn't working because the cd-rom drive's power cable must be plugged in upside down. So he tried to flip the power cable over but noticed it was bevelled so it wouldn't let him plug it in upside down. So he decided to pull the 2 end red wires (5V and 12V) out of the bevelled power connector and put them back in swapped. Really bad idea.
The scary part is that this guy is now a computer tech for a company with about 50 computer users.
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Um.. You just reversed his logic to make the computer cheat if humanPlayer does not equal "Winning". His example was correct.
You, sir, give artificial intelligence a whole new meaning.
This is from the Old Testament. (found in my History of Pi book).
"Also, he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
Egyptians and Babylonians had a much better approximation of Pi, long before the Bible was written. The Babylonians calculated Pi to be 3 1/8. The Egyptions had it at 4 * (8/9) ^ 2.
I'm not saying that the Bible was making an absolute claim that Pi was 3, as they're attempting a general description of an object in the quote. But my main point was that this senator took it literally, and I'm sure he had a large backing of complete idiots.
I can't remember the details exactly, but a while back, a senator tried to have Pi officially changed to 3 because that was what was stated in the Bible.
Just be glad he wasn't a math teacher.
I hate to break the news to you Eric, but there's a bowling alley opening up down the street from your place. Sorry man.
And if you actually read the article, you would have realized that Jim Oberg is still going to write the book, but with alternative funding.
For a second there, I thought you had written "alternative ending" instead of "funding". Since NASA's not going to cough up the money, the new version will end up with the spaceship returning to Earth with Apes at the damn controls.
A few months ago, I had an offer from this Dr. Fafa dude in Nigeria. He wanted me to hold onto $21,320,000 for him. I told him that since I live in Canada, I needed to know how much that would be in Canadian dollars. He wrote back and said it'd be $21,319,999,998.44 Canadian. Near as I can tell, he musta multiplied by a thousand, and since the U.S./Canada exchange rate at the time was $1.56, he then SUBTRACTED $1.56 from $21,320,000,000. Of all the Nigerian scam artists, I have to deal with the Dan Quayle of the bunch.
A friend of mine bought a cd-rom drive, tried to install it himself, and didn't know what he was doing. He calls me up and asks me to come down to his place and take a look. When I got to his place I could smell smoke coming out of his computer. Turns out that he decided it wasn't working because the cd-rom drive's power cable must be plugged in upside down. So he tried to flip the power cable over but noticed it was bevelled so it wouldn't let him plug it in upside down. So he decided to pull the 2 end red wires (5V and 12V) out of the bevelled power connector and put them back in swapped. Really bad idea.
The scary part is that this guy is now a computer tech for a company with about 50 computer users.