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God, I love the internet. :)
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i'll give it to NM as he was closest.

to calculate the largest possible circle to the smallest degree, you only need
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197 (39 d.p.)

beyond that π has no application.

over to NM
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[quote="Istenem"]i'll give it to NM as he was closest.

to calculate the largest possible circle to the smallest degree, you only need
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197 (39 d.p.)

beyond that &#960]

Not bad for my old school back of a fag packet approach to problem solving.
Although I have smoked em now so can't remeber how I got to it.

Anyways what was the last chemical element to be discovered naturally (as opposed to being synthesised in a laboratory) ?
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crikey. this is going to be a stab in the dark:

californium?
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No.

Where's HE today, this is the sort of question that is normally meat and drink to him?
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one of the ones from ytterby in sweden?
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I'll guess uranium, on the grounds that plutonium only (usually?) occurs when uranium decays, which may or may not count as a natural process depending if it needs a reactor or not. :)
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Not sure about your physics weylando. IIRC Plutonium is synthetically made from bombarding uranium with neutrons, hence its higher atomic number.

Anyway its not right.

UP was close only in the sense that the one we are looking for is named after a place.
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francium?
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Twas indeed Francium
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