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Re: Gravity and pi



At 10:47 AM 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
Hello!
Is it just a coincidence that the acceleration due to the
gravitational force on the surface of the earth is approximately pi
squared?


Yes. Consider what you get if g is expressed in furlongs per
fortnight-squared.

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