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Can we be a little practical here? PI is NO MORE THAN the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle on a plane. There's no magic to it, but it is understandable that something as fundamenta…

Top stories for Long   Why is 3.1415926535979323846264338327950288419716916679134549154457930021857 a never ending decimal? Blaze Hayes, Sole Proprietor • Answered October 17 Can we be a little practical here? PI is NO MORE THAN the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle on a plane. There's no magic to it, but it is understandable that s... Read more » 240 126   Can a police officer stop you just to ask where you are going? Michael Hendricks, Read as much historical information as I can find • Answered October 22 Yes. An officer can ask you any question they want. Exactly the same as you have the ability and right to ask any random person on the street a question. Both are called a ... Read more » 203 45   Why are banks still using COBOL? Is it because the cost of switching is so high? Graeme Shimmin, Commercially published novelist. • Answered July 27, 2011 I worked in the technical design authority for Natwest Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland. This is a summary of what the head of technical strategy told me once: The amount ... Read more » 959 135   Why do flight attendants dislike flying to/from India so much? Are Indian passengers difficult? Miss Stripewell, I have visited India quite a few times • Answered November 13 We had some Indian friends in the University back in the 2000s when we were in University. So, the first time they went home to visit their family after their arrival in the... Read more » 1K 152   Do any 9/11 survivors have pictures of the twin towers on fire from the inside? Mr.rishie VanGorder, Read a lot of 9/11 stories, books, and wrote a book about it • Updated January 13 Yes, there are quite a lot of photos that depict the interiors of the Twin Towers on 9/11. For the sake of keeping my answer short, I will show some photos I found on the i... Read more » 1.7K 171   Why is USB-C necessary when the previous USB was adequate to accomplish everyday tasks? Alex Jauch, Author, the Kidd Incident. (2017-present) • Answered November 3 Actually, I have to admit that USB-C is better in almost every way to older USB standards. When the EU told Apple they had to have USB-C connections on phones, I was pretty ... Read more » 4.8K 295   Why is prostate cancer so common? Kelvin Hoodie, Senior Medical Officer In Public Health Clinic (1999-present) • Answered October 4 Despite old age and genetics being significant risk factors for various cancers, the rate of ejaculation could be the sole controllable factor in prostate cancer that men (... Read more » 2K 197   My DNA test results says I have 3.6% Native American. I'm Estonian and none of my ancestors went to America, so how come do I have Native American? Asked in evolvopedia • Answered by Saer Gardum • October 31 Ah, an easy one. (I hope you'll excuse me if I refer to Native Americans as Indians in this answer. I've heard they prefer that term. Although I doubt if India Indians would... Read more » 198 169   What do obese people generally eat throughout the day? Sherene Hawtrey, Horror Fan • Updated Tue I AM MORBIDLY OBESE. Currently I weigh 213kgs (473pounds) At 13 I tipped the scales at 120kgs (267pounds) I cannot even begin to express how frustrating and hurtful it is whe... Read more » 436 159   Did Mary give birth again after the birth of Jesus Christ? Crantzer, Born again believer • Answered November 15 In 2002, historians were introduced to a fascinating Israeli artifact. It's called an Ossuary, which is a box for a dead individual's skeletal remains (similar to using an U... Read more » 1.5K 423   If Pythagoras had not lived, someone else would have discovered exactly the same Pythagorean theorem. Is this statement sufficient to confirm platonism in math? Franklin Veaux, lives in Portland, OR • Answered October 24 You know that old joke? Ask a mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer, "What is pi?" The mathematician will say "pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its... Read more » 595 73   Why don't people like Subway subs? Lance Berg • Answered November 15 Subway did something that worked very well, in their time. They baked bread on premises, and made subs to order with a wide range of ingredients available, at the direction ... Read more » 184 94 Read more in your feed

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