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://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 105820974944592.com/

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

All I knew was Pi=3.1415926

[Guest]

im sad and memorised pi to 19 digits 3.1415926535897926433

[Matra et Alpine]

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]

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 :D Pragmatist :D

[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 :eek:

[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. :D
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. :D 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:eek: what mathmetician sat there and figured out a million decimal places

[aNOBLEman]

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]

my god:eek: 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]

my god:eek: 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 :D

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 :D )

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]

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 :eek:

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 :D I guess we need to modernize soon :p

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]

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

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. :D

[BjD]

SuperPI (http://www.geocities.com/hjsmithh/Pi/Super_Pi.html) now you too can find Pi to 33Million decimal places :)
Intersting to note, the site says it takes ~3days for an old Pentium 90, a modern desktop can do it in 20 to 30 minutes. Thats progress :)
I remember reading a Usenet post where a guy was astonished at how fast modern systems can compute Pi, he used to have to set aside days on a supercomputer to get it to 1million decimal places. Last time I did it it took 45seconds :cool:

[Guest]

pi = 3.14 thats all i kno - but i hav a smart little button om my calculator that helps me :)
yes, but that gets you to 10 digits and rounds the last digits, oh, the amount of people whove sed ive got a digit wrong because their calculator rounded the last digit!

[Pando]

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

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 !!!!!
It had to be a MIT joke, so I'm guessing Massachusetts. :)

[Bob]

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 !!!!!
Must be Indiana, I think they voted for bush.

also, i bet at least 3 in ten people say canada

[Tourbillon]

I knew pi by 22/7 or 3.141 only... I'm so sad.
Though in my math book it states that pi was calculated to a million digits.
Argh, f*** Ptolemy . :)

[dydzi]

I almost regret posting this, as I don't like spamming


you don't :eek:
so you're some kind of masochist then :D


anyway, does any of you guys who say those digits that π has, actually know what does pi is?

[Guest]

yes, i know

[Rybitron]

im a little fuzy on the details but my calc professor told us some guy (australian?) calculated Pi to a couple hundred thousand digits or so several hundred years ago and no one knew how to check if he was right or not until fairly recently and they figured out he set and did it all by hand because after like 100,000 digits he got off one and everything after that was wrong. that would just suck.

[Matra et Alpine]

Yeah, William Shanks (he was English) had it to 800+ digits in the 1800s and then a guy uses a desktop calculator in 1940s to show he got it wrong from about 500 onwards !!

[PerfAdv]

Is there a pattern that emerges or is it random?

[Matra et Alpine]

PI is an "irrational number" and so there are no repeating patterns - which is why some people love doing it to large numbers of digits. If you found a "pattern" you'd be world famous :D
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Mathlinks/pi.gif

Somewhere there is a group of 5 or 6 9s IIRC :D

[derekthetree]

PI is an "irrational number" and so there are no repeating patterns - which is why some people love doing it to large numbers of digits. If you found a "pattern" you'd be world famous :D

Somewhere there is a group of 5 or 6 9s IIRC :D

how the hell does that prove pi is irrational? :confused: :D

that's one complex proof

[GT F1]

In theory, if you found the value of pi, you could square the circle. :D

[my porsche]

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 !!
yeah lets all learn it to the millionth decimal! :p

isnt it something like 3 1/7?

[Matra et Alpine]

yeah lets all learn it to the millionth decimal! :p
And education system that only taught the VALUE of thenubmer and not it's derivation and importance is the point being made and confirmed by the comment that beign able to quote the NUBMER had any relevance proves the inadequacy fo teh education system :(

isnt it something like 3 1/7?
erm as an approximation that is less accurate than the value worked out 3000 years ago that's fine. .... "Mr Bush, sir, we have another candicdate for our intelligence service, sir, will I recruit him ? "

[my porsche]

eh shut up :p

3 1/7 = 3.142857 (repeating)

[Matra et Alpine]

eh shut up :p
It wasn't personal.
you can't help it that the education system has devalued anything complicated and has dumbed it all down so that more people can go to college etc etc :(

3 1/7 = 3.142857 (repeating)
yeah we can all divide 7 into 1 :D
hence why it was pointed out how inaccurate it is relative to the currently known value.
As stated, it's fine as an approximation as was stated earlier by Torubillon.
( I'm hoping that 22/7 = 3 1/7 is known :D )

["Clevor" Angel]

Pi is the circumfrance of a circle divided by the diameter. The ancient greeks were the first to figure it out I believe.

[h00t_h00t]

They might think they a clever, but its Pie dumbasses.

[Matra et Alpine]

They might think they a clever, but its Pie dumbasses.
Proof that the point in post #3 applies to the English education system too :(

Pi is the greek letter Π (upper case), (lower case) π

EDIT: Damn fonts :) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Greek_alphabet_pi.png

[my porsche]

They might think they a clever, but its Pie dumbasses.
i love your self confidence

[h00t_h00t]

Another joke goes over everyones head.

[Matra et Alpine]

Another joke goes over everyones head.
In future you'll do better to follow standard netiquette and use one of these

:)

or if you think it's REALLY funny (unlikely) then

:D

Better luck next time ( can't decide :) or :D ? )

[Rockefella]

Another joke goes over everyones head.
Sorry, sometimes a smiley is needed. :)

You never know on the internet, sarcasm can be taken as an insult and vice-versa. :p

[Matra et Alpine]

sarcasm can be taken as an insult and visa-versa. :p
Just like mastercard-versa, AmericanExpress-versa :D

or "vice versa" :rolleyes:

[h00t_h00t]

You needed a smiley to tell that that was a joke?

[Rockefella]

Just like mastercard-versa, AmericanExpress-versa :D

or "vice versa" :rolleyes:
Huh?? That's what I wrote. :p

It's not like you never have a typo, 455H013. ;)

[my porsche]

dude quit speaking 1337 and go get a social life :p (note the smiley hooters)

[TVR IS KING]

Ur all liek n00b, i pwn all ur asses n0obz, im liek 1337.

Anyway, my friends friend is writing a computer program that will calculate pi back 1 centillion places or something....NERD.
lol, And I currently have access to 10 billion places. You can download it from a site, WHO WANTS THE LINK?
Matra, you know your pi.

[Matra et Alpine]

Huh?? That's what I wrote. :p
Well it wasn't unless the ether is magically changing the characters as they are transmitted from UCP server :p :p

It's not like you never have a typo, 455H013. ;)
Not a typical "typo" , that's a "brain-fart" :D

or maybe it's degenerative brain disease as you seem to have dropped back to 12 year old with mobile phone and internet access text :D

[forza_autodelta]

eh shut up :p

3 1/7 = 3.142857 (repeating)
is that mixed numbers?

[my porsche]

what are mixed numbers?

[forza_autodelta]

what are mixed numbers?
in france we have european classes and when you enter in highschool you study mathematics and history/geography in english

[Rockefella]

Well it wasn't unless the ether is magically changing the characters as they are transmitted from UCP server :p :p

Not a typical "typo" , that's a "brain-fart" :D

or maybe it's degenerative brain disease as you seem to have dropped back to 12 year old with mobile phone and internet access text :D
Continuing in this manner will result in your instantaneous death. :cool:

[Matra et Alpine]

Continuing in this manner will result in your instantaneous death. :cool:
You sound like Blofeldt....

"I want you to die, Mr Bond" :D :D

[henk4]

You sound like Blofeldt....

"I want you to die, Mr Bond" :D :D

but of course nobody will confuse You with James Bond:)

[Matra et Alpine]

but of course nobody will confuse You with James Bond:)
I do an EXCELLENT Sean Connery akshent, mish moneypenny :)