Humour VIII

It's what separates us old guys from the ones who can see.

Are there values of a and b, whether integer, rational or irrational, that would make a/b=π? I don't think there are any that you can write down without an infinite piece of paper. Any number you come up with could never be precise enough for the equality to hold. I think?Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

AZPaul3 writes:

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Are there values of a and b, whether integer, rational or irrational, that would make a/b=π?

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π is a number. Therefore 2π is a number. For a = 2π and b = 2, then a/b = π.

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Or for any circle with circumference a and diameter b, then a/b = π.

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There's a lot of inaccuracy out there on the Web. I repeatedly saw webpages declare that π is not the ratio of any two numbers. What they must mean is that π is not the ratio of any two integers, the definition of an irrational number. π can certainly be the ratio of two numbers as long as one of those numbers is irrational.

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--Percy

I'm sure I used to have a sense of humour.

It's not all that funny. Perhaps it is droll.But the discussion is funny.If that horse ever had any laughs, they're dead now, too.

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Mars rover Perseverance finds turret of Russian T-72.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

This just arrived in my Admin inbox:

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Employee at evcforum.net Company,

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Find attached your 2 months salary receipt.

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--Percy

So you fired yourself? Did you at least give yourself a generous severance?

And did you click on the attachment?That attachment is after all worth two months salary.

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Ten percent of nothing is, let me do the math here, nothing into nothing, carry the nothin'...
  —Jayne in "Firefly"

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Luckily, the same day I got sacked, I won the Nigerian lottery.

Then I'm glad you finished up all those programming changes you were making before you leave.

I know, the irony, right?--Percy

A while back I investigated whether it was possible to open such attachments safely. I no longer remember the details of what I learned, but the short answer is no. There's probably ways to figure out what's in them, but I've never looked into it.--Percy