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			|  | 03/31/2003 02:33:44 PM · #1 | 
		| | This is the craziest thing about Pi I've ever seen--count the letters in each word in the poem, and you get pi (hundreds of places!)!!! 
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			|  | 03/31/2003 02:40:39 PM · #2 | 
		| | Well that is certainly irrational | 
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			|  | 03/31/2003 02:43:12 PM · #3 | 
		| | | Originally posted by StevePax: This is the craziest thing about Pi I've ever seen--count the letters in each word in the poem, and you get pi (hundreds of places!)!!!
 
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 Actually, somebody has bested that: The text you add that is merely the first part of a very long text called the Cadaeic Cadenza. The full text is more than 4000 words long, and encodes the first 740 digits.
 
 REad it here: Cadaeic Cadenza.
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			|  | 03/31/2003 02:44:41 PM · #4 | 
		| | (with full information about all the things encoded in that text to be foundhere) | 
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			|  | 03/31/2003 02:45:06 PM · #5 | 
		| | | Originally posted by Gordon: Well that is certainly irrational
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 Gordon=winner of the worst Pi/Math joke ever.
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			|  | 03/31/2003 02:46:40 PM · #6 | 
		| | | Originally posted by SharQ: and encodes the first 740 digits.
 
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 Forgive me. 3835 digits. The Raven encodes 740.
 
 HJ
 
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			|  | 03/31/2003 03:23:04 PM · #7 | 
		| | Do we really need THREE topics on pi? 
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			|  | 03/31/2003 03:33:21 PM · #8 | 
		| | 'Tis a favorite project of mine, A new value of pi to assign.
 I would fix it at three,
 For it's simpler, you see,
 Than 3.14159.
 
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			|  | 03/31/2003 04:36:06 PM · #9 | 
		| | "Do we really need THREE topics on pi?" 
 Well, I couldn't create 3.14 topics on Pi. So yes.
 
 HJ
 
 edit: Damn, CJ beat me to it.
 
 Message edited by author 2003-03-31 16:36:27.
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