Pointless or what?

[Bob Phillips]

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3651

[johnske]

Wha......? :dunno :rofl: :rotlaugh: :rofl: :rotlaugh:

[johnske]

I actually downloaded it for a larf - here's what's said...


What follows are the first 1 million digits of the square root of
4. Actually, slightly more than 1 million digits are given here. These
digits were computed by Norman De Forest using a custom utility and a
command with a lot of dollar signs in the command line. They were
computed during his copious spare time on a standard IBM PC over the
course of about 6 minutes and 40 seconds. We do NOT guarantee the
accuracy of these digits. Although these digits have been checked once
we encourage others to check them as well. Please report any errors
to...

Yes, it is correct but I'd much prefer to just round it off and take the approximate value of 2 :devil2: (talk about unnecessary precision)

[Bob Phillips]

If you test with

If 2 - 2 < 1E-10 Then

you should be safe!

[Simon Lloyd]

Bob to be fair:

Release Date2003-01-01We are now in 2007 wheels are no longer square!, technology has moved on quite a bit.

Lol

[malik641]

Yes, extremely pointless.

[mvidas]

Wow. Hmmm let me test somethingDebug.Print Format(Sqr(4), "#." & String(36210, "#"))Nope, still 2

[Zack Barresse]

I vote pointless. :)

[Brandtrock]

I think someone should submit the square root of -4 to a million places. Just a simple Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, i, Save and then submit it to them for publishing!

Submission by Anonymous Unknown Guest of course.