--- Doug Ewell <dewell@...> wrote:

> 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/

Oh no, that's clearly a 5-line violation which
definitely shouldn't be allowed to slip through
without
a 20-line disciplining action. Thanks for helpfully
keeping the topic on the rails. God knows what
could've
happened if we'd let that slip through without saying
anything (-;


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