Posted on 03/14/2022 9:10:44 AM PDT by mylife
Your statement is far too limited. There are ways to calculate Pi that do not involve measurement at all. Typically the calculation would involve the sum of an infinite series of fractions such that the fractions tend to become smaller very quickly.
LOL, you let the cat out of the bag. ;)
Speaking of 22/7 and 2חr,
What's KIC 9832227 been up to these days?
Because what if 983 = c, or r?
The "predicted merge" was given as 2022.2 (± 0.6 years).
How is that calculated, .2 of a year? 73 days? I don't know if that is some epoch kind of code, but of it's just 365 x .2...
Heh, that would be 73 days into the year 2022.
Which is today.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
It has been suggested that the fact that pi cannot be resolved is evidence that we live in a flat universe.
You meant “sine” and “cosine”.
> Your assumption is incorrect. <
Please explain. As I noted earlier, I might have missed something here.
Side note: I was trained as a chemist. And I got the nickname “the experimenter”. That was not meant as a compliment. It referred to the fact that I always wanted to see experimental evidence - the actual measurements. I was wary of purely theoretical stuff.
I guess that’s one reason why I doubt Global Warming so much. Most of the “experimental evidence” is pure garbage.
Its very confusing.
why are pizzas round? the boxes are square, the slices are triangles..
wtf?
> the calculation would involve the sum of an infinite series of fractions <
Thanks for the post. I was not aware of that. So I just did a little searching and found the Gregory-Leibniz series. That series of fractions converge to pi as more and more fractions are added.
But why those fractions? How do they relate to an actual circle? I’m going to have to do a bit more reading on the subject.
In at 3/14 1:59
As my fishing buddy says, ‘It boogles the mind.’
Obviously, by definition men cannot be born with pi.
Ruhbarb,
That is Just Wrong and
I don’t care about
The Spelling.
.
See me after Class.
How I wish I could calculate Pi
May I have a large container of coffee
May I have a large container of coffee Thank you
May I have a large container of coffee cream and sugar
How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics
Sir, I know a rhyme excelling in mystic force and magic spelling. Celestial spirits elucidate, all my own striving can’t relate
NASA, BTW, only used π to two digits (3.14) to put men on the moon.
I see that,
Nice try.
'Fun' .. lol
3.14 is good enough for me.
Haha yes I did - he was the engineer :-)
The third diagram in the Wikipedia article on "Taylor Series" shows a blue function and a pink function. The blue function is "y = sin(x)".
The pink function is a polynomial consisting of seven terms.
The Taylor Series of the blue function evaluated at zero yields the polynomial. Adding more terms to the polynomial allows a closer approximation to the blue function at the point at which the Taylor expansion is performed. An infinite number of terms would give the blue function value at zero exactly.
In order to generate an infinite series that approximates pi, one needs a blue function whose value at some point is pi. One then generates the polynomial which is the Taylor Series expansion at that point. Evaluating the resulting polynomial at that point would then approximate pi. Using an infinite number of terms would theoretically generate pi exactly.
French silk, please.
“So if a circle’s C and D are known to, say, eight digits each, pi can only be known to eight digits.”
Pi is not a measured value but a computed value approximated by an enclosed polygon. An exact value obtained by using an infinite number of sides on the polygon.
Many years of research has been spent using different mathematical derivations to increase speed and/or accuracy of the computation.
“why are pizzas round? the boxes are square, the slices are triangles.”
To make slices triangular, the pizza would have to be a polygon.
We had 2 Pis for dinner last night. A spinach one and a mushroom one. Leftovers for breakfast this morning. Guess they are not called Pi a day late.
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