wrote:

Pete Schaefer wrote:
: Easy. Just use one gear with 1.4264 teeth in it.

: "Tim Ward" wrote in message
: ...
: Just out of curiosity, how would you get any ratio to be an irrational
: number?

Actually, that wouldn't work either, since 1.4264 = 14264/10000. Now, if you
found the mystical gear with sqrt(2) teeth... then you'd be in business...

-Cory

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Maybe we can ask Jim to design a pi detector.

That's a tough one,
A lot harder than the BS detector...