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Bob
 
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Wayne replied to Paul:

>> You don't use a skillet - any damn fool knows that pie are round and
>> cornbread are square.
>>

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> Only if it's cornbread that looks and tastes like cake. Ugh!


Wayne, Paul was trotting out an old joke: The mathematical formula for the
area of a circle is pi (3.1416 and a bunch more decimal places) times the
square of the circle's radius. This is often spoken as "pi R squared." The
joke was that no, pie are ROUND. CORNBREAD are square.

And I've seen lots of cornbread baked in rectangles; I think the majority of
institutions cook it that way.

Bob