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Re: Gravity and pi



At 08:06 PM 11/12/98 -0500, Sam Held wrote:
John,

What I remember is that the number of seconds in a year is about pi
times ten to the minus seven.

^^^^^

And I thought that it was just me getting older that made each year seem to
pass more quickly! (I think you meannt pi times ten to the plus seven,
which is correct within about .3%)

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