I finally get it!check out a standard US 12 month calendar for January of this year
PLucas said:Ok, seeing that we are posting 'old' puzzles and the like, here's one of my favourites, it still catches people out down the pub.
If I circled the earth with a piece of string at the equator it would be approximately 40,076km long, if I now placed another bit of string on top of my original but leave a 1m clearance between the two, how much longer would my second bit of string be than the first?
Steve Bailey is NOT allowed to answer
Paul
bernie_carlton said:Daniel - throw that calculator away. The values are way off. And pi to 5 decimal places is 3.14159. Your calcualtions are off using either the actual value of pi or your value of pi (3.1459)
RMA said:That was on the German version of "Who want's to be a millionair! a month or two back as either the 16,000€ or 32,000€ question, so I guess I better keep my mouth shut as well!
To the best of my knowledge all pi values are the same...jonton said:Your pie is bigger than my pie. Maybe you're closer to the equator.
Only 3.142857rec down here.
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Originally Posted by RMA
That was on the German version of "Who want's to be a millionair! a month or two back as either the 16,000€ or 32,000€ question, so I guess I better keep my mouth shut as well!
I would be courious to know what the answer was on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire"...