Subject: RE: how to determine distance from line? [BoundaryPoint] 1542<br/>
Date: Sep 10, 2004 @ 04:20<br/>
Author: Ron McConnell (&quot;Ron McConnell&quot; &lt;rcmcc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1106243155">William Shanks calculated pi to 707 places <br/>
by hand in 1873-74, but made an error <br/>
from the 527th place forward. <br/>
The error wasn&#39;t found until 1945.<br/>
The &quot;Hall of Fame of Discovery&quot; <br/>
in Paris had decorated the inside <br/>
of their cupola with Shanks&#39;s 707 digits.<br/>
Then, after WWII they had to redo the last 180.<br/>
The workmen were shaking their heads <br/>
over the crazy scientists.</div>