Guinness Book of Records??
Jim Nastos
nastos at cs.ualberta.ca
Sat Aug 24 07:28:10 CEST 2002
On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Antti Karttunen wrote:
> Contains the decimal and continued fraction expansions of
> THE MOST FAMOUS TRANSCEDENTAL CONSTANT OF *THE WHOLE COSMOS*, Pi =
> 3.141592653...
"The most famous" is not exactly a great quantitative measure.
Also, a book 'contains the decimal and continued fraction expansions...'
of these constants, so shouldn't that also hold your title?
(I'd also argue that 1 or 2 is more famous than pi.)
Note also that the Guinness book has *PEOPLE* who can recite more digits
of pi than OEIS holds. Reciting digits _is_ a quantitative measure.
I'd think the most reasonable measure for the OEIS to hold a record in
is exactly what the OEIS was set out to do: be the largest database of
integer sequences in the world.
Jim
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