Pi

[TVR IS KING]

I almost regret posting this, as I don't like spamming (if I could delete all the posts I made as a junior member I would) and I don't like being called a spammer, but I really find it interesting.

http://3.141592653589793238462643383...974944592.com/

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/pi/

All I knew was Pi=3.1415926

[Jakg]

im sad and memorised pi to 19 digits 3.1415926535897926433

[Matra et Alpine]

Originally Posted by TVR IS KING

All I knew was Pi=3.1415926

another testament to the dumbing down of science and engineering in schools

Not your fault, blame the idiots who run school systems who haven't a clue about the depth of science !!

[Matra et Alpine]

Originally Posted by Jakg

im sad and memorised pi to 19 digits 3.1415926535897926433

I'm sadder, I only "memorised" it to 3.14159 as being sufficiently accurate for anything I'd ever want to use it for Pragmatist

[Roy Visser]

In math class, we had a wall of around 2.2 by 6 meters, which was covered by PI in the numbers of around 5mm high

[TVR IS KING]

According to the second link, Pi day is on the 14th of March at 1:59PM. Why?
Pi=3.14159
(3.) March is the third month of the year (14) 12th of March (159) the time. The date and time are taken from the first few digits of Pi!
Lol my friend figured that out. I showed them all, I'm so proud of how much Pi I have.
Yesterday I was doing a quiz for a friend, and I decided to answer with Pi. I decided 3.1415926 was too short so I went in search of a little more. I found 974 digits. Today I searched more and now I have 1,000,040 digits, as seen here.

[Shelley]

pi = 3.14 thats all i kno - but i hav a smart little button om my calculator that helps me

[AstonMartinV12]

my god what mathmetician sat there and figured out a million decimal places

[aNOBLEman]

Originally Posted by Shelley

pi = 3.14 thats all i kno - but i hav a smart little button om my calculator that helps me

Me too. I eat Pi for lunch.

[derekthetree]

Originally Posted by AstonMartinV12

my god what mathmetician sat there and figured out a million decimal places

me, naturally

i agree with matra that schools just teach what pi is not what it means.

[Matra et Alpine]

Originally Posted by AstonMartinV12

my god what mathmetician sat there and figured out a million decimal places

It's easy with computers
Back in the 15 century a Persian scholar worked PI out to 15 decimal places. To do it he had to estimate by using a polygon with over 800 MILLION SIDES. Pretty impressive with no calculator and limited paper

The "record" used to be 51 BILLION digits by two japanese mathemeticians in the late 90s.

[Matra et Alpine]

Some GREAT trivia ( sorry guys, I'm sure there was stupidiy in all our nations, but this is the only one I got sent )

In 1897 a state House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill setting pi equal to 16/(sqrt 3), which approximately equals 9.2376. In which state of the United States did this occur?

A. California
B. Indiana
C. Massachusetts
D. Florida
E. Canada

Besides, the number was KNOWN to be approximately 3.1-3.2 for roughly THREE AND HALF THOUSAND YEARS !!!!!

[drakkie]

Originally Posted by PoRsChEnUt

In math class, we had a wall of around 2.2 by 6 meters, which was covered by PI in the numbers of around 5mm high

ours is covered with autographs and names of students and sometimes dates. the first autograph is from 1968 !!!! on spme of the older tables on our school, there still is stuff like Peace '76 and the peace sign I guess we need to modernize soon

edit:
at chemistry there are all results from FC Twente from 1987 on the wall Guess what he teacher is fan off

[car_fiend]

for some reason, i find the fraction for Pi to be the easiest to remember, and i can work with it quite well, 22/7.

[NuclearCrap]

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Some GREAT trivia ( sorry guys, I'm sure there was stupidiy in all our nations, but this is the only one I got sent )

In 1897 a state House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill setting pi equal to 16/(sqrt 3), which approximately equals 9.2376. In which state of the United States did this occur?

A. California
B. Indiana
C. Massachusetts
D. Florida
E. Canada

Besides, the number was KNOWN to be approximately 3.1-3.2 for roughly THREE AND HALF THOUSAND YEARS !!!!!

If Arnold was born back then, I would say A.