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  Re: cos(pi*3/2) results -0.000  
From: Steve Martin
Date: 25 Jan 2003 08:39:19
Message: <3e329387$1@news.povray.org>
Timothy R. Cook wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
>> It isn't even a rounding error.  PI can never be represented exactly 
>> in any
>> evaluation (assuming certain properties of PI are indeed true).
> 
> 
> Sure it can.  pi = circumference/diameter
> There, I just exactly represented Pi. :)

...but sybolically, not numerically. The numeric representation
is left as an exercise for the student.  8)



-- 
Steve Martin, CPBE CBNT


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