pi

[Anonymous]

Is it just me or is pi no longer working in parameters? If I remember
correctly, you could enter a formula like:
pi * Dia and get a circumfrence. When I do that now, I get the "Unable
to parser equation" message, the table re-sizes and the edits I made the
the parameter are lost.

[Anonymous]

I just used it yesterday - didn't get the error. But I used PI*D
(capitalized)

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Cory McConnell
BJ Pipeline Inspection
"Charles Bliss" wrote in message
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> Is it just me or is pi no longer working in parameters? If I remember
> correctly, you could enter a formula like:
> pi * Dia and get a circumfrence. When I do that now, I get the "Unable
> to parser equation" message, the table re-sizes and the edits I made the
> the parameter are lost.
>

[Anonymous]

It has to be caps doesn't it PI * Dia

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"Charles Bliss" wrote in message
news:3DF2E409.9090800@cbliss.com...
> Is it just me or is pi no longer working in parameters? If I remember
> correctly, you could enter a formula like:
> pi * Dia and get a circumfrence. When I do that now, I get the "Unable
> to parser equation" message, the table re-sizes and the edits I made the
> the parameter are lost.
>

[Anonymous]

Oh, now I feel a bit silly. I found the following line (copy / paste)
from the Inventor help under Edit Box Reference:

sin(pi/4 rad) or (0.5 * base * height)

Notice that it shows "pi" not "PI". Doh!

Just for grins, here is VB's method for pi:
Dim pi
pi = 4 * Atn(1)

Thanks, that did it.

Cory McConnell wrote:

>I just used it yesterday - didn't get the error. But I used PI*D
>(capitalized)
>
>--
>Cory McConnell
>BJ Pipeline Inspection
>"Charles Bliss" wrote in message
>news:3DF2E409.9090800@cbliss.com...
>
>
>>Is it just me or is pi no longer working in parameters? If I remember
>>correctly, you could enter a formula like:
>> pi * Dia and get a circumfrence. When I do that now, I get the "Unable
>>to parser equation" message, the table re-sizes and the edits I made the
>>the parameter are lost.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>

[Anonymous]

I went through the same thing yesterday.

--
Cory McConnell
BJ Pipeline Inspection
"Charles Bliss" wrote in message
news:3DF2EF26.2050008@cbliss.com...
> Oh, now I feel a bit silly. I found the following line (copy / paste)
> from the Inventor help under Edit Box Reference:
>
> sin(pi/4 rad) or (0.5 * base * height)
>
> Notice that it shows "pi" not "PI". Doh!
>
> Just for grins, here is VB's method for pi:
> Dim pi
> pi = 4 * Atn(1)
>
> Thanks, that did it.
>
> Cory McConnell wrote:
>
> >I just used it yesterday - didn't get the error. But I used PI*D
> >(capitalized)
> >
> >--
> >Cory McConnell
> >BJ Pipeline Inspection
> >"Charles Bliss" wrote in message
> >news:3DF2E409.9090800@cbliss.com...
> >
> >
> >>Is it just me or is pi no longer working in parameters? If I remember
> >>correctly, you could enter a formula like:
> >> pi * Dia and get a circumfrence. When I do that now, I get the "Unable
> >>to parser equation" message, the table re-sizes and the edits I made the
> >>the parameter are lost.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

[Anonymous]

8~)

Last week for me; remembered IV names are case sensitive (and glad it's that
way).



"Cory McConnell" wrote in message
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I went through the same thing yesterday.

--
Cory McConnell
BJ Pipeline Inspection
"Charles Bliss" wrote in message
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> Oh, now I feel a bit silly.......

[Anonymous]

... and REALLY glad it returns 3.14159....

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[Anonymous]

"Jeff Howard" wrote in message
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> ... and REALLY glad it returns 3.14159....

Just read an online article stating that PI has been computed to the
TRILLIONTH decimal place in Japan. It took them about 40 hours on a
supercomputer. The code took 5 years to write!

How's THAT for a close tolerance!

[Anonymous]

G. O. D. Machine Works might be able to handle it.
~Larry

"Jim Strenk" wrote in message
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>
> "Jeff Howard" wrote in message
> news:f12aa90.5@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > ... and REALLY glad it returns 3.14159....
>
> Just read an online article stating that PI has been computed to the
> TRILLIONTH decimal place in Japan. It took them about 40 hours on a
> supercomputer. The code took 5 years to write!
>
> How's THAT for a close tolerance!
>
>