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Re: Gravity and pi



George,
Sorry, it is to the positive seven. Years fly right now while
still in school.


Sam Held


-----Original Message-----
From: George Spagna [mailto:gspagna@RMC.EDU]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 1998 7:41 AM
To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
Subject: 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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