[R] Value of 'pi'

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Ravi Varadhan <rvaradhan at jhmi.edu> wrote:
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> I have also heard (courtesy: John Nash) that `pi' is the ratio of actual time it takes to complete your thesis to the anticipated time.


And I find it a useful mnemonic that there are pi times ten million
seconds in a year (accurate to better than half a percent).

     -thomas

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Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Auckland