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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/98912_pi07.shtmlHilmar;
I remember a book I read when I was 17, which discussed the lives of a number of scientists and mathematicians. I do not remember the name of the mathematician but he was Italian, who spent his entire live defining the value of pi. This occurred during the middle of the 19th century. It took the UNIVAC computer a matter of a few seconds to find an error he made at about the mid point of his calculation. Thus the last thirty years of his life were “not spent well”. That gave me a terrible feeling how insignificant man is!
Tom
