Pi: was Re: Guinness Book of Records??

[David Wilson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Conway" <conway at Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: "Jud McCranie" <jud.mccranie at mindspring.com>
Cc: <gould at math.wvu.edu>; "Franklin T. Adams-Watters"
<franktaw at netscape.net>; "Integer Sequence Fans" <seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: Pi: was Re: Guinness Book of Records??


>
> > 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

And it never will.