I’m a math and computer geek and even I go: “So? What’s the point?” LOL
Now that’s accuracy.
Of course, tied to some of the COVID vaccines. Well, there went a fun concept.
Yeah, but I won’t believe it until the Facebook Fact Checkers have a look-see.
“Infinity never felt so close”
Spare me. 62 trillion digits? I’ve got about that much in storage devices somewhere in my desk.
You want a glimpse of infinity?
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html
Get a bucket first, because you’re going to need a bucket for your brain after it melts while reading that.
Summary:
Graham’s Number is the largest known non-infinite number which answers a meaningful (albeit obscure) question. Expressing it is ... difficult. We’re talking “big” as in just the number of digits is vastly larger than packing the entire universe full of quarks and writing each digit of that number on a quark.
When that scale is understood, consider that it’s nigh unto nothing compared to infinity.
Calculate pi to Graham’s Number of digits, and consider you’re just barely getting started.
Infinity is very, very far away.
So what is it?
What an incredible waste of computer time and function. To prove what is already known as a irrational number, meaning it cannot be written as the ratio of two integers. The decimal representation of π is non-repeating.
The number can’t be written as a common fraction, though 22/7 approximates it. The decimal representation has not-— even in this ridiculous expense of time and utilization, been established as a permanently repeating pattern throughout any derivation.
>> using a supercomputer.
As I suspected. But we all know how to be even more precise.
Let me know when the last number is zero.
Good, another password I can use.
Math is racist.
Sorry, epic fail. They were just one short of discovering the last decimal place. This is what happens when you give up.
Calculating pie can be a challenge: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/aug/17/wenatchee-apple-pie-takes-shape-hundreds-peel/
Oh, never mind.
Why stop there? Keep going!
Pi to ten places = May I have a large container of coffee cream and sugar = 3.1415926535
In Carl Sagan’s book, “Contact”, he had a really interesting idea about PI. According to the book, there was a message embedded deep inside of Pi. Buried deep inside of Pi, in base 11, there was a large string of ones and zeros that could be structured to draw a picture of a circle.
Granted, that Pi most likely contains any arbitrary string of numbers, (I don’t think this has been proven) it’s actually likely that you could find something like this if you looked hard enough. Of course, the same could be said about ‘e’.
Oops, wrong π... 🤓