Even After 22 Trillion Digits, We’re Still No Closer To The End Of Pi

FiveThirtyEight ^ | March 14, 2018 | Oliver Roeder

[Darteaus94025]

Pi are round and cornbread are square.

[Darteaus94025]

A circle has four sides: inside, outside, top and bottom.

[jiggyboy]

Random forever. If the digits started to repeat, that means it’s a fraction where you know the numerator and denominator.

BTW here’s an easy but slow formula for approximating it:

pi = 4 x (1/1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 ...)

It’s an infinite sequence of fractions, but you never get to a fraction that’s the “last” fraction.

[wally_bert]

It’s also great for driving aliens out of starship computers.

[P.O.E.]

IIRC, isn’t there something about using calculus to find the limit of perimeter of a polygon as number of sides approaches infinity? It’s been many years.

[z3n]

Sometimes I wonder if stuff like this is a kind of mathematical sarcasm.
You can’t reach the last digit of pi because you can’t reach infinity. The formula for pie simply rounds the corners off the tangents of a circle and the the deeper you calculate, the more perfect the circle. You can’t have a calculation perfectly round circle. It will simply grow forever in it’s precision

[z3n]

lol@pie I need breakfast

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

I’m craving cornbread now.

[Phlap]

Pi, like the square root of two and many others, are irrational numbers. There is no end to them. And in that way they are like Bill Clinton who isn’t circumcised because there is no end to that pr*ck. lol

[FroggyTheGremlim]

e**(i*pi) + 1 = 0

[central_va]

22/7 = Pi.

[captain_dave]

Cornbread:

🌽(🍞) = 🍕xx 🍻 [pie to the power of two beers]

[ought-six]

I generally round it to closest 10,000th: 3.1416. That works well for any use I have.

[ought-six]

Pi are round, cornbread are square. That was a funny skit many, many years ago.

[SkyDancer]

Not a problem. Some schools are changing Pi to 3.0 because you know, terrified snowflakes having their self esteem damaged.

[Moltke]

Well, what did they expect? It’s an irrational number, maybe they should look up the definition for that.

[Wuli]

Just leave my pie alone.

[Rebelbase]

“It’s also great for driving aliens out of starship computers.”

What series does that come from?

[wally_bert]

Star Trek TOS.

The one about Scotty being a murder suspect.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Good thing 4.20 day is only about a month away!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGJvzwKqg0