In rec.arts.sf.science message <1205625008.765608@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:50:08, Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>This is silly. The winner is clearly had by typing "pi" into the nearest
>Google search box. Nine digits from two characters. And you can even use
>it in calculations:
That's rather long-winded; only half that number are needed.
I pasted the single character pi, from Character Map (U+03C0 : Greek
Small Letter Pi) into the MS IE 6 Address Bar, and got 3750000 results.
Google also accepted it, giving 17900000 results, and the fourth entry
on the first page included :-
Pi to 1000000 places
Pi to one MILLION decimal places.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164
062862089986280348253421170679
That agrees with DOSPROMPT>longcalc 200 10 100 pow cof #pi
Google's response to the two characters pi is 142000000 results, but the
first page is less impressive.
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