{"id":3124,"date":"2006-01-18T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2006-01-18T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T15:00:08","slug":"catch-3-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/18\/catch-3-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch 3.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that that Guinness Book of World Records has an entry entitled <a href='http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/content_pages\/record.asp?recordid=47055&#038;Reg=1'>Most accurate value of pi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt> As continuation of a long-running project, Yasumasa Kanada of the University of Tokyo has calculated the number pi to 1,241,100,000,000 decimal places.<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Observation:  You can&#8217;t call it &#8220;accurate&#8221; unless you verify the number by independently calculating pi out to the same decimal place; if you independently calculate pi out to the same decimal place then Kanada calculation is no longer a world record.<\/p>\n<p>Also:  <a href='http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/content_pages\/record.asp?recordid=52426&#038;Reg=1'>Most Popular DJ-Simulation Video Game<\/a>? <a href='http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/content_pages\/record.asp?recordid=57399'>Most Latex Feet Made For a Movie<\/a>?  <a href='http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/content_pages\/record.asp?recordid=52781'>Farthest Spaghetti Nasal Ejection<\/a>?!   Come on.  By that standard I probably set the record for &#8220;Most Ounces Of Poached Egg And Corn Beef Hash Enjoyed By a Matthew Scott Baldwin On January 18, 2006&#8221; just this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that that Guinness Book of World Records has an entry entitled Most accurate value of pi: As continuation of a long-running project, Yasumasa Kanada of the University of Tokyo has calculated the number pi to 1,241,100,000,000 decimal places. Observation: You can&#8217;t call it &#8220;accurate&#8221; unless you verify the number by independently calculating pi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}