Nicholas Bodley <nbodley at speakeasy dot net> wrote:

> Btw, easy way to remember 355 ⁄ 113: Mentally (or physically) write
> the first odd integers, each twice: 11 33 55.
> Rearrange: 113 355. Rearrange, again: 355⁄113. Fun. As to that
> "remarkably-good": No numerator smaller than 104348 gives a better
> approximation; complete form is 104348 ⁄ 33215.

Even by Seshat's liberal interpretation of "on-topic subjects," this is
far off-topic:

> Qalam, a mailing list about the world's writing systems.
>
> Alphabets, ideographs and hieroglyphs; calligraphy, typography and
> fonts; i18n, character sets and input methods; Morse, Braille and sign
> language; literacy, history of writing and invented scripts. These are
> just a few examples of on-topic subjects.

Perhaps I'll be flamed for saying so, but please try to exercise a bit
more discipline.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/