From: Christian SCHERER Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 12:00:14 +0100 Message-Id: <9512191100.AA07707@miller> To: scherer Subject: (fwd) Re: French Pi Mnemonic Newsgroups: soc.culture.french,sci.math,alt.quotations,rec.puzzles Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1930 Status: RO Path: fontainebleau.ensmp.fr!jussieu.fr!ifp.fr!news From: billette@irsun35.ifp.fr (Emmanuel Billette) Newsgroups: soc.culture.french,sci.math,alt.quotations,rec.puzzles Subject: Re: French Pi Mnemonic Date: 19 Dec 1995 07:45:23 GMT Organization: Institut Francais du Petrole Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <4av11c$ko1@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: irsun35.ifp.fr In-reply-to: gregbrume@aol.com's message of 16 Dec 1995 12:52:44 -0500 Xref: fontainebleau.ensmp.fr soc.culture.french:59987 sci.math:92388 rec.puzzles:35620 In article <4av11c$ko1@newsbf02.news.aol.com> gregbrume@aol.com (Greg Brume) writes: > > Here is the full mnemonic, from Helen A. Merrill's Mathematical Exurcsions > (Dover, 1957), reprinted in Dr. Crypton's Mind Benders from Science Digest > (St. Martin's Press, 1981). > > "Que j'aime a faire apprendre un numbre util aux sages! > Immortel Archimede, sublime ingeniur, > Qui de ton jugement peut sonder la valuer? > Pour moi ton probleme eut de pareils avantages." The one I knew is the following : Que j'aime à faire apprendre ce nombre utile aux sages ! Immortel Archimède, artiste, ingénieur, Qui de ton jugement peut priser la valeur ? Pour moi, ton problème eut de pareils avantages. It should yield pi = 3.141592653589793238462643383279.... Does it seem correct ? -- = Emmanuel R. Billette = = Institut Français du Pétrole - billette@irsun35.ifp.fr = -- [Above text does not necessary reflect the views of ENSMP] _______________________________________________________________________ | Christian Scherer | L'Homme de l'avenir est celui qui a | | scherer@ensmp.fr | la plus longue me'moire. | |_http://www.ensmp.fr/~scherer/_________________________(Nietzsche)_____|