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Re: Gravity and pi



Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:47:44 -0500 Denise Wetli
<dmwetli@WTCC-GW.WAKE.TEC.NC.US> writes:
Hello!
Is it just a coincidence that the acceleration due to the
gravitational force on the surface of the earth is approximately pi
squared?

Denise Wetli (Just wondering why the earth is round).

It isn't perfectly round. It's an oblate spheroid!

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where we nit pick at round earths and eat round apple pies)

Which explains why g is not *perfectly* equal to pi^2!

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Doug Craigen http://www.dctech.com
(from Winnipeg, where the Perimeter highway is almost round and has a
radius of somewhere around 9.8 miles (though the locals don't know what
a mile is)