[Groop] Intense debate - NOT political, I promise

[Chris Schechner]

Walt Kelly once posited:

How much ground round would a ground hog hog if a ground hog could hog
ground round?

Please don¹t start another discussion trying to answer this.

Chris
(Glorko)


on 11/2/08 1:58 AM, Eric Chun at ericchun at hotmail.com wrote:

> Woodchucks are also known as groundhogs, so ...
>  
>      How much ground could a groundhog grind,
>      if a groundhog could grind ground?
>  
> If you have a circle, a "radian" is an arc measure
> equal to the radius of the circle.  As a result, if
> you were to measure the circumference of the
> circle in terms of "radians" (or the radius of the
> circle), then the circumference turns out to be:
>  
>      2 * (radius) * ("pi")
>  
> "pi" turns out to be an irrational number, approx-
> imately 3.1415927.
>  
> 22/7 is close, approximately 3.1428571.
>  

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