Ch 8 Test: Angles and Areas in Polygons

[serendipity17]

"Oh," says Barnabas, somewhat dismayed, "he rounded pi to 3."

Comments

[evade.livejournal.com]

Shame, shame! Clearly, he wanted to round pi to 3.1415926535897.

Like a true ISer, that was from memory. Further, I'm sure that the number of digits of pi I have memorized pales in comparison to what some of our other dormmates know. ;-)

[kay-gmd.livejournal.com]

Ahhh!
Who would desecrate pi so

[whalejudge.livejournal.com]

Sounds like someone just volunteered to become an object lesson...throughout Barnabas' career.

[barnabas-truman.livejournal.com]

Well, Hiram of Tyre the bronzeworker already rounded pi to 3 when he was constructing the huge "circular" vessel for holy water in Solomon's Temple (I Kings 7:23), so it's not like it's a new mistake or anything.

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

Kool Whip?

[barnabas-truman.livejournal.com]

I know it to 3.1415926. Though that should probably round up to 7. Oh well. Good enough for me. Also, it's only a constant in Euclidean geometry (on the surface of a sphere, for instance, pi actually gets smaller as the circle in question gets bigger!).

Matt was capable of reciting pi to 50 decimal places, and would quite happily show off this ability at any excuse. :-P

[evade.livejournal.com]

I remember that! He's the first person I thought of when I was typing my comment. I think I tried to show off to him once, with my paltry 14 digits. Oh, he put me to SHAME!

I'm also now thinking of the time you threatened to tell Kenny all about non-Euclidean geometry when he was preposterously drunk:

"I don't wanna hear any Caselidian geometry!"

[barnabas-truman.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, that was fun.

For a lot of freshman year I really wanted to have a chance to lecture non-Euclidean geometry at a drunk person. The first time I tried it was at a party at a (non-IS) friend's place... the drunk girl I was trying to lecture at turned out to be a math major, though, so we ended up just exchanging various math jokes. Later that evening we went out to the garage for some Irish folk dancing, and I played bodhran accompaniment using a laundry hamper as a drum and a wooden spoon as a drumstick. Fun party.

[whalejudge.livejournal.com]

It's also not an unreasonable mistake. The kid was trying to show just how much math had sunk in.

[agengrgal.livejournal.com]

If he had access to a calculator, bad move. If he didn't, good idea but round up a bit at the end.