Harv Sather

General Comments

• February 22, 2007

  TeX uses the digits of Pi for its versioning

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX

  Since version 3, TeX has used an idiosyncratic version numbering system, where updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end of the decimal, so that the version number asymptotically approaches Pi.

  The current version is 3.141592

  Likewise, versions of METAFONT after 2.0 asymptotically approach e.

  Harv Sather
  
  -- (February 22, 2007) on Pi

• January 14, 2007

  I could not see a reference to PI the movie

  Here is a link to it

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

  on IMBD

  A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.

  A rather odd movie, but somewhat captivating.

  Essential to a collector of all things PI,

  Harvey Sather
  
  -- (January 14, 2007) on Pi