π = 3 (sometimes) for Nobel laureate

Re:π = 3 (sometimes) for Nobel laureate by FaceKicker on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:46PM (#2417121)

Off topic, but why is the "pi" character in most common fonts so poorly designed? It always seems to have a straight line at the top rather than a tilde-like stroke and it confuses me just about every time.

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Re:π = 3 (sometimes) for Nobel laureate by syncsynchalt on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @07:35PM (#2417482)

I had the same problem, I thought the author mistakenly used ∏ but I see in my browser tab that it's correctly lowercase.

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Re:π = 3 (sometimes) for Nobel laureate by JBrone on Thursday April 07, 2011 @12:45AM (#2418224)

I read n = 3. I thought I was coming into a discreet calculus thread. Then i find it's continuous and got upset. Then I find that it's not even american calculus which makes me even more upset. I'm going to have to hammer out a few combinatoric problems regarding the probability of picking a McNuggets box with TWO boot-shaped nugs just to get my credibility back. /silly

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