PiSeconds
Last edit May 17, 2002
Pi seconds is a nanocentury.
This excerpted from
http://www.programmingpearls.com/sec071.html
You might find it hard to memorize that there are
3.155x10e7 seconds in a year
. On the other hand, it is hard to forget Tom Duff's handy rule of thumb that, to within half a percent,
pi seconds is a nanocentury
.
See also:
RuleOfThumb
,
RuleOfSeventyTwo
,
WhimsicalUnitsOfMeasurement