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Re: [86attendees] Pie?

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer+ietf@nic.fr> Thu, 14 March 2013 14:35 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer+ietf@nic.fr>
To: Tim Shepard <shep@alum.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [86attendees] Pie?
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:22:09AM -0400,
 Tim Shepard <shep@alum.mit.edu> wrote 
 a message of 21 lines which said:

> That we wound up with pi which is the ratio of the circumference to
> the diameter was a mistake.
> 
> If you're not already aware of this, read the Tau Manifesto 

I'm not sure it has practical consequences for the IETF. Is there even
one RFC which uses the number Pi? ("pi" in RFC 2865 is a different
beast)

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