Texas lawmaker challenges hamburger history

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Originally posted by dreamzpainter

I think it would be interesting if you could read this post without having to scroll sideways time and again

It's because of the very long URL in caratzas post above.
I sure do wish we'd get into the habit of avoiding extra long URLs or extra-large photos that cause this problem.
URL's can be shrunk at any one of a couple hundred websites that will shrink them for users ... and photos can be put behind a link or a thumbnail (even a very big thumbnail) if it is desired to make available a very large version of the photo.

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Originally posted by GB944

Isn't it about that time of year when some jerkwater politician makes a law that pi is a rational number (like 3)?

I thought pi was exactly 3 1/7...no more and no less?

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Originally posted by buckeye1

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Originally posted by GB944

Isn't it about that time of year when some jerkwater politician makes a law that pi is a rational number (like 3)?

I thought pi was exactly 3 1/7...no more and no less?

Actually 3 and 1/7th is fairly close but in the mathematical world, it is pretty far off. Here it is to 500 decimal places:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286
208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481 117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233 786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006 606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146 951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749 56735188575272489122793818301194912

Some folks have taken it out to millions of decimal places but this is only 500.

For those of you who want more:

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


Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

I thought the hamburger was invented in Seymour Wisconsin in 1885. When you go through the town it has that sign about being the home of the hamburger. I guess at this point does it really matter. I am all for a good double cheeseburger. Sounds like its time for a trip to Culvers tommorrow.

Wow,Really, New Haven ct is both the birthplace of the hamburger & pizza? Hey how's the chowda and the lobsta.