Posted on 07/03/2005 3:25:54 PM PDT by ItsJeff
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NO, silly...it's 83,432!!!
Man Said to Recite Pi to 83,431 Digits Sat Jul 2, 9:36 PM ET
TOKYO - A Japanese psychiatric counselor has recited pi to 83,431 decimal places from memory, breaking his own personal best of 54,000 digits and setting an unofficial world record, a media report said Saturday.
Akira Haraguchi, 59, had begun his attempt to recall the value of pi — a mathematical value that has an infinite number of decimal places — at a public hall in Chiba city, east of Tokyo, on Friday morning and appeared to give up by noon after only reaching 16,000 decimal places, the Tokyo Shimbun said on its Web site.
But a determined Haraguchi started anew and had broken his old record on Friday evening, about 11 hours after first sitting down to his task, the paper said.
He reached the 80,000-digit mark after midnight early Saturday, according to the paper, which had a photo showing Haraguchi with his eyes closed, his face contorted in concentration.
If verified and recognized by the Guinness Book of Records, Haraguchi's feat would beat his own previous best — currently under review — of 54,000 digits. The official current record-holder, also Japanese, calculated pi from memory to 42,195 decimal places in 1995.
Pi, usually given as an abbreviated 3.14, is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. The number has fascinated and confounded mathematicians for centuries.
Aided by a supercomputer, a University of Tokyo mathematician set the world record for figuring out pi to 1.24 trillion decimal places in 2002.
Researchers say that calculating pi to more than about 1,000 decimal places has not much purpose in math or engineering, though mathematicians have done so to test the accuracy and limits of supercomputers.
are you a public school teacher?
yeah, the parents are responsible too.
"So the Canadian taxpayers pay for Toyota's benefit pkg"
Yes.
...as I said, here comes the 500 pound monkey.......
Yea, I was on that thread. Thought I would make it easy for you.....;) Have to go.
Yes.
I've heard it said that 30% of Seattle's surgical cases are on Canadian nationals. It would be interesting to see if any B. C. or Seattle news organization would look into that figure.
"The educational level and the skill level of the people down there is so much lower than it is in Ontario," Fedchun said.
...and on another thread; American teachers are mewling
Oh, but I'll bet our workers know more about hugging trees and global warming than your workers do. Afterall, our workers have been through our school system.
Busy time under the troll bridge tonight, eh? First defeing Michael Schiavo, now calling Toyota racist. What next? A defense of Scientology? Gonzalez's for USSC?
O, I don't disagree with you...
I only hope the workers are smart enough to reject having that big monkey on their backs...
"Tanguay [President of Toyota Canada] told Cambridge workers they could expect to pay $2.45 million in union dues and reminded them that the plant is the only auto factory on Canada's top 100 places to work, according to Maclean's, a national magazine.
The CAW was approached to organize workers at Cambridge because of excessive overtime. Tanguay says no auto plant can operate without overtime and claims a union contract would provide less schedule flexibility for workers."
What's your point? They mostly vote for uber-liberal anti-American scumbags.
What good is this supposed better education?
"I've heard it said that 30% of Seattle's surgical cases are on Canadian nationals"
Wouldn't surprise me. I have inlaws in BC.....one needs a knee replacement, but they won't do it until they can be sure he's old enough to not need one again......there are tons of anectdotes like that.
But to the point of the thread, the healthcare costs, especially under union rules is a definite factor in the selection.
Canada, and it's ability to socialize the cost (to Toyota) of healthcare wins. Canada would be paying for the workers healthcare anyway - this way, Toyota gets cheaper labor, and the workers pay high taxes....or maybe they just tolerate longer wait times....or both.
Actually it is usually Yankees who come down south and act superior.
I tell them that if they don't like Southerns then "move your ass back up north then"
Heartofsong83: "Woodstock and Oxford County = the most conservative county in southwestern Ontario. No real union base in that area, very much built around agriculture, also a strong religious tinge there."
Toyota doing their homework I see.
I was wondering when someone would notice this. Toyota did not say this. Some freaking Canadian did. And many Freepers fell for it.
Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association , has over 400 members which account for ninety percent of independent parts production in Canada. In 2001, automotive parts sales were $33 Billion and the industry employed 98,000 people.
Some freaking Canadian!
I'm just waiting for someone to post a comment...about being able to laugh at one's self... "self defecating humor"
they'll never live it down...
That's been addressed.
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