Message-ID: <BANLkTikt1B9jmNQpEjWHJ_TSUQy_JrxhTg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-05-31T20:41:18Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: Value of 'pi'
In-Reply-To: <2F9EA67EF9AE1C48A147CB41BE2E15C30151CC@DOM-EB-MAIL2.win.ad.jhu.edu>
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Ravi Varadhan <rvaradhan at jhmi.edu> wrote:
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> I have also heard (courtesy: John Nash) that `pi' is the ratio of actual time it takes to complete your thesis to the anticipated time.
And I find it a useful mnemonic that there are pi times ten million
seconds in a year (accurate to better than half a percent).
-thomas
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Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Auckland