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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Constraints of the keyboard #17838 02/13/2001 7:20 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 315 Italy - Perugia is a town with... emanuela enthusiast emanuela enthusiast Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 315 Italy - Perugia is a town with... So we have to call "pi" what was previously named by the greek letter. Anyway, to a mathematician 4 digits - as 1415 - for pi are no more satisfying than 1.000.000, since pi is not rational - there is no possibility of writing it in a decimal form repeating again and again the same string of digits , as, for example , in 7,1232412341234... Ciao Emanuela Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: In your face #17839 02/15/2001 6:30 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago I'll stick to any kind of pi(e) that hits me in the face, or is it vice-versa ... Blueberry seems to be chock-full anti-oxidants, and it reminds me of picking wild "ones" up in the mountains of Norway with the reindeer by my side. Lemon, whether it be dancing the "merengue", or topped with a thin layer of Mandarin Napoleon is right up there... but my current favorite is "banana oil", especially with all this cajolery going on. But, please, let us not talk about food...YART.... and another thing, the pi issue is here in YART again.... not that I expect to change the subject back to goosing, completely, however... - Ciao Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: In your face #17840 02/15/2001 9:14 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA Just a reminder : AnaStrophic had a great idea when she started a thread called Recipes and other non-language topics ... right in this category. Just a reminder wow Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: In your face #17841 02/15/2001 11:16 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 francais31415 member francais31415 member Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 Forgive my ignorance - dare I ask - what is YART? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: math notation #17842 02/15/2001 11:19 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 francais31415 member francais31415 member Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 In regards to your comment about using 1.000.000 digits - As a child I learned to use commas for large numbers (1,000,000) - now I am seeing periods (1.000.000) and spaces (1 000 000) used, especially in science-related or foreign uses. Any explanations?? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: math notation #17843 02/16/2001 11:51 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 what is YART? IITYWYBMAD? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: math notation #17844 02/16/2001 1:15 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 Bean old hand Bean old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 In French immersion we learned commas where an anglo would use decimals. So $2.00 would be 2,00 $ written in French, at least the way I learned it. Also in Italian the same reversal of symbols applies, so one million is 1.000.000 as Emanuela wrote. (I don't think this is new, it has always been around, but the increasing overlap of different cultures makes it more noticeable.) It's probably used more often there because the lira comes in "giant" denominations like that. A million lire isn't really as much as it sounds like - something like $717 Canadian or $469 US. As for scientific publications, I have noticed an increased use of spaces instead of commas: two thousand three hundred and thirty eight would be 2 338, not 2,338. But that may be just a preference of certain publishers, and maybe since switching into oceanography I am reading more papers by those publishers...hard to say. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: math notation #17845 02/19/2001 3:14 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta I sometimes think I spend half my life swapping round commas and points in numbers. Indonesian, presumably following Dutch usage, also has 3,141 (for three point (in Indonesian koma ) one four one) and 3.141 (for three thousand one hundred and forty-one). Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: math notation #17846 02/27/2001 3:19 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 francais31415 member francais31415 member Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 Thanks for the explanations. 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