[MATHEDCC] pi^2

Rob Kimball (rlkimbal@WTCC-GW.WAKE.TEC.NC.US)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:49:37 -0500 (EST)

several of you put some thought into the
relationship between pi^2 and the gravitational
constant of the earth being roughly equivalent
and how that fact relates to the spherical
nature of the earth.
Thoughtfully, someone pointed out that if
there were such a relationship on earth that caused
the earth to be spherical, then the gravitational
constant on the moon should be equal to pi^2 as well.
Well, "obviously" that means that there is different
value of pi on the moon, right. That would be moon pi(e).

Robert L Kimball 919-662-3602 (Office)
Chair, Mathematics and Physics Dept 919-266-0850 (Home)
Wake Technical Community College Raleigh, NC 27603-5696

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