Word: tt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delighted by his success, Dutka is now eying more ambitious projects: calculating million-digit values for TT (3.14159 . . .), the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter; and the mathematical constant e (2.71828 . . .), the base of natural logarithms and one of the most significant numbers in higher mathematics. Says Dutka: "After that, I can well afford to call it quits...
...father sent him to be raised by his grandmother. "She used to say I'd sneak out and play in the mud when I was little, so she started calling me 'Muddy,' " he told TIME Correspondent Joe Boyce. "The kids added 'Waters.' Tt was a 'sling' [meaning slang] name, and it just stuck...