17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
1:54 p.m.
On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 05:17 PM, Joe wrote:
At 02:43 PM 12/17/03 -0800, you wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Patrick Rigney wrote:
>> Somebody just showed me "Google calculator". Go to google and enter
>> any of
>> the following:
>> 0xf342 - 54
>> 38891 in octal
>> 10kg * 4m/s^2
>> 26tbsp
>> I guess I can throw away my 27S now. :-) --Patrick
>
> Their "complete instructions" suck. They don't even list all of the
> operators! (such as your use above of "in octal".
>
> OK,
> what is the IEEE floating point representation of PI?
> "3.1.459 in binary" does NOT work.
Google thinks 335 / 113 = 2.96460177
I don't know but 355/113 is easy to remember and is accuarate to
about 6
places. That's what we used to use on computer languages that didn't
have
PI predefined. (Boy I'm dating myself!)
Joe