Person: Hey, check it out: e^pi-pi is 19.999099979. That's weird.
Hat Guy: Yeah. That's how I got kicked out of the ACM in college.
Person: . . . what?
Hat Guy: During a competition, I told the programmers on our team that e^pi-pi was a standard test of floating-point handlers--it would come out to 20 unless they had rounding errors.
Person: That's awful.
Hat Guy: Yeah, they dug through half their algorithms looking for the bug before they figured it out.
{{alt text: Also, I hear the 4th root of (9^2 + 19^2
22) is pi.
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We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close.