[Info-vax] VMS process communication

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sun Mar 19 11:16:31 EDT 2023


On 2023-03-17 17:01, Steven Schweda wrote:
>> Am I confused? [...]
> 
>     Perhaps.
> 
>> [...] I was under the impression that pi comes from the
>> division of the diameter with the circumference of a circle.
>> No logarithmic or trigonometric anywhere near that...
> 
>        arccos( -1) = ?
> 
>     Trying to disconnect trig functions from circles and pi seems (to me)
> perverse and unproductive.  Or does your Web search for:
>        trigonometry "unit circle"
> find nothing?

Just because something gives pi does not mean it is the definition of pi.
I thought this was about the definition.

   Johnny




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