Determining the Value of Pi

Date: 8/5/96 at 16:17:33
From: Patrick Caswell
Subject: How do You Get Pi?

How can you determine a value of Pi?  Is Pi the circumference of a 
circle divided by the radius?

Date: 8/5/96 at 17:33:55
From: Doctor Paul
Subject: Re: How do You Get Pi?

Not quite. Pi can be found by dividing the circumference by the diameter.  

Note: it has been proven that Pi is irrational. This means it cannot 
be expressed as a whole number divided by another whole number. So if 
you are planning on measuring the circumference and dividing it by the 
diameter, both numbers cannot be whole. If they are, one of two things 
has happened:  

  1) You are dealing with an oval  
  2) You have disproven every great mathematician in history. *grin*

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