Pi: was Re: Guinness Book of Records??

[John Conway]

> At 09:52 PM 8/24/2002 -0700, Henry Gould wrote:
> >The most important constant in the entire known Universe is the number 1 ...

   Seems to me that 0 is much more important.  Who solves  aXX + bX = C = 1?

   Let me say that I heartily agree with Jud's comment...

> I need to clarify what I meant, then that'll be the end for me.  The point 
> that I had tried to make on sci.math was that we could use 2pi or pi/2 for 
> the constant, not that it was the most important.

  ... and that I'd vote for  2.pi  rather than  pi  if it ever came to it.

   John Conway