Coincidence?
Wait til the beginning *really* comes to life.
3.14159265358979323846..
Now you're not going to find them easy to follow. They're not using normal procedures; they're using some kind of code.
Posted on 08/17/2021 3:45:42 AM PDT by Libloather
Heh. Reminds me of my college surveying class where we had to calculate our position using the location of the sun. It had to be figured to something like 20 decimals, which was beyond the capability of our calculators at the time. The professor taught us some trick on how to figure it out. I have no idea how now - but perhaps the square root function was involved???
Your screen name says it all...
Coincidence?
Wait til the beginning *really* comes to life.
3.14159265358979323846..
Now you're not going to find them easy to follow. They're not using normal procedures; they're using some kind of code.
In your study of the history of pi, have you learned why that particular character of the Greek alphabet was assigned? Was it in premonitional deference to a certain baked good?
That would be an equilateral triangle.
They have a Ph.D. in graft, and a Master's in Deception.
In my calculation, the last seven digits were 8675309
I was thinking that finally there’s some precision in making a circle.
pi r’nt square. pi r round.
Cornbread r square.
Meanwhile, from a distance the circle still appears to be round
Your respective calculations remind me of a butcher in Queens who kept telling customers it’s getting harder to make both ends meat.
I think that what you teacher actually said was that, given a supposed diameter of the universe of, say, 28 billion light-years, knowing pi to 37 digits was sufficient to calculate the circumference of the universe with an error of less than the size of a typical virus.
Regards,
Well, that’s a pretty decent approximation I guess.
Ancient (and modern) Greeks pronounced the letter pi more like “pee” which would bring an image to mind other than a baked good.
Are mathematicians “scientists”? Is mathematics a science? At first I thought “No”. But I suppose so. It Is A Field Of Knowledge. It Is Reproducible.
It’s certainly more of a science than the fantastical witches brew of Virology, or the story telling of evolution, or what passes for astro physics today. A lot of what passes for Science today is not science, is not scientific.
Where There Is Government Money Given, There Is Fraud And Corruption.
Lemme know when you get to the message at the end: “Hey there, took yah long enough! Now click your heels three times and you’ll get a surprise!”
Until then, go way.
We know the exact value of pi: 22/7.
It’s only when we try to express that as a decimal do we get these long decimal places.
If I’da known that in physics class, I coulda told the teacher I can’t answer the problems re PI cause my paper isn’t big enough.
Sine ... Cosine ... Cosine ... Sine ... 3.14159 !!! [Math Nerd Cheer]
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