[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Dan Cross]

In article <tv790f$np5$1 at news.misty.com>,
Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>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.

You were correct. The usual definiton of Pi is the ratio
of a circle's circumference to its diameter.  Pi and e are
transcendental over the reals.

	- Dan C.