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 Message 24397 
 Ed Vance to Mike Powell 
 PI to 104 Decimal Places 
 28 Aug 25 15:50:57 
 
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> When I was younger I remember some folks having those fancy TI calculators,
> and I also remember the "manual" was a pretty large one... in my memory, it
> was at least as thick as the calculator.  ;)

> They could do some pretty neat things with them.  Later, I remember they
> got a little more high tech and could even display graphs.  This would have
> been back in the 1980s.  I wonder now how their computing power compares to
> that of a cell phone or a PC.

> Mike

>  * SLMR 2.1a * What is mind? No matter! What is matter? Never mind!


I measured my copy of The Great International MATH ON KEYS BOOK.
It is 5"W 8"T and 3/4" thick.
Ed
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