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Thoughts from the mind of Kool Musick, 07-11-2001:

>"All" you have to do is find some way of, for example, representing pi
>accurately in a digital filter ... which by its very definition is going to
>be somewhat limited in its capabilities given that the synthesizer with the
>ability to represent pi accurately has yet to be created (far as I know
>none of them have the infinite memory required to represent pi with the
>required degree of accuracy).

Guys, guys, aren't you all getting a little bit overboard in this 
discussion??  Having a complete representation of pi is useless, in 
any sense and in any context.  Period.  Exercise: how many decimals 
of pi do you need to calculate the circumference of a circle with 
diameter 1 billion lightyears, with a precision of 0.1 mm?  The 
answer may surprise you, and puts a nice upper boundary on the 
"sensible number of decimals of pi you'll ever need".


phew...
HJ
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