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24 Sep 2012, 8:05 pm

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was right!

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24 Sep 2012, 8:31 pm

3.1415926535897932384626433832795 x 13.37 = 42.003093778495535598245542034447

The value of "42" is in error by 0.01000073661392750847577274810344 percent.


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24 Sep 2012, 9:29 pm

Fnord wrote:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795 x 13.37 = 42.003093778495535598245542034447

The value of "42" is in error by 0.01000073661392750847577274810344 percent.


But what fun would life be without some error?


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25 Sep 2012, 12:00 am

Fnord wrote:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795 x 13.37 = 42.003093778495535598245542034447

The value of "42" is in error by 0.01000073661392750847577274810344 percent.


In the formula I posted there's no decimal in 1337%! Stop trying to derail my thread! :D



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25 Sep 2012, 2:05 am

Fnord wrote:
The value of "42" is in error by 0.01000073661392750847577274810344 percent.


I always knew there must be a low-level error in this planet's system! 8)



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25 Sep 2012, 2:58 am

Positive proof that Arthur Dent exists and is God! It must be his fingerprint! :wink:


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25 Sep 2012, 10:16 am

largosan wrote:
Fnord wrote:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795 x 13.37 = 42.003093778495535598245542034447
The value of "42" is in error by 0.01000073661392750847577274810344 percent.
But what fun would life be without some error?

Blasphemy! In God's Perfect World there can be no error!

But then ... we have error ... so either the world is not perfect ... or there is no God.


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