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peregrine · 05-5-2004, 08:15 PM

one of my highschool math teachers told a story of 3 mathematicians (grandfather-father-son relation) who dedicated their lives to finding more digits to Pi in the... 1500-1600's? I think. Anyways, the story goes that the 3rd one found out that his grandfather had made a mistake VERY early on in the calculation, hence, their result, and lives, were pretty much useless.

That's gotta suck.

dunno how true that is, but it was relevant in an amusing way.

05-5-2004, 08:15 PM	#47
peregrine FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 122	one of my highschool math teachers told a story of 3 mathematicians (grandfather-father-son relation) who dedicated their lives to finding more digits to Pi in the... 1500-1600's? I think. Anyways, the story goes that the 3rd one found out that his grandfather had made a mistake VERY early on in the calculation, hence, their result, and lives, were pretty much useless. That's gotta suck. dunno how true that is, but it was relevant in an amusing way.