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Talk:Pi to 10,000 places
Any point to this? - [[User:Montrealais|Montr&eacute;alais]]

It's also slightly slopping over into the right margin.  -- [[User:Zoe|Zoe]]

I'd rather leave out the "(approximately)" and put "..." at the end. [[User:JakeVortex|Jeff]]

I'm not enough of an expert to fix the margin, but I don't see why this article can't exist for the purpose of letting other articles link to it.  A week or so ago, I added an article on a [[Report from Himmler to Hitler]] to supplement the article on [[Holocaust revisionism]] and provide supporting evidence for the argument against revisionism, as stated in the article.  The purpose of the article is for the Holocaust revisionism entry to link to it.  Why not do the same thing with this article, and let the [[pi]] article, and others, link to it?  -- [[User:Modemac|Modemac]]

There is a technical question with reporting "[[pi]] to ''N'' places": is it rounded up or down. If you are going to use it, you might want it rounded to the nearest digit. If you are thinking of it as the first ''N'' digits of the infinite expansion, you want to truncate (i.e., round down). One way or the other, the article should indicate which choice is made. [[User:JakeVortex|Jeff]] 00:00 Nov 22, 2002 (UTC)

This is not an encyclopedia article, nor can it ever be.  It should not be in wikipedia.  Part of what makes a project good is knowing what the project is [[wikipedia:what Wikipedia is not|not]]. [[User:DanKeshet|DanKeshet]]


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If I ever need a ''really'' precise circumference of a circle, I'll know where to come ;-) -- [[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]] 00:07 Nov 22, 2002 (UTC):More precisely look at point 13 of [[wikipedia:what Wikipedia is not|what Wikipedia is not]]: Wikipedia is not "Mere collections of public domain or other source material [...] that are only useful when presented with their original, un-modified wording.". I'm afraid the 10000 places of pi qualify, even if they do not bother me if they stay here. [[User:FvdP|FvdP]] 00:17 Nov 22, 2002 (UTC)

If I ever need a ''really'' precise circumference of a circle, I'll know where to come ;-) -- [[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]] 00:07 Nov 22, 2002 (UTC)

:Precise? Not quite: we don't even know if the last digit was rounded up or down ;-) More seriously, a vandal could come and change a digit here and there. And then you'll wonder that ''çà ne tourne pas rond''. [[User:FvdP|FvdP]]