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Even After 22 Trillion Digits, We’re Still No Closer To The End Of Pi
FiveThirtyEight ^
| March 14, 2018
| Oliver Roeder
Posted on 03/15/2018 2:50:28 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I say we round it to three. We’re already rounding it by an infinite number of digits, what’s a few more.
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posted on
03/15/2018 2:52:37 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
One of my twins knows it to 51, won challenge at school yesterday. The other knows it to about mid-20s.
If you are calculating the circumference of a pizza, you don't need many digits. But try it with the circumference of an orbit, say of the International Space Station. The digits begin to really matter. I know it out to about 15 and much prefer simply using a calculator!
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posted on
03/15/2018 2:56:08 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Is there some type of math function that would tell us Pi will repeat the pattern at some point down the road if we calculate it out far enough?
Or are we certain that the numbers will forever be random with no pattern ever?
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:02:06 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
To: P.O.E.
When I was young and I asked for help with my homework, my pappy said, “Son, pie are round and cornbread are square.” That’s pretty much all the math I’ve needed since.
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:04:34 AM PDT
by
KingLudd
To: Reno89519
Supposedly, if you know ok to thirty digits then you can measure a circle as big as the known universe.
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:06:49 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: Psalm 73
Sounds like it’s gonna be random forever.
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:07:52 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
To: KingLudd
What is the number “cornbread” equal to, and what is its symbol? :-D
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:08:32 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No, had they gone to 22 trillion and 2 digits they would have found out that it ends, but they gave up 2 digits early. Now we’ll never know.
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:14:13 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Even in Geometry there is no such thing as a perfect circle. If there was we’d have found the final decimal place for Pi by now. No matter how many points are used to define a circle at any radius, it will still have its corners at every point.
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:15:10 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A nice pre-technology method for determining the circumference of a circle of with diameter 1 is to take the average of its circumscribed and inscribed polygons. That's because pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. As the number of sides of those polygons increases, the average approaches pi.
Obviously, pi will never have an exact value. The number of sides of those polygons can increase without limit. I don't understand why it took all of these geniuses and all of that computer time to try to find an exact value for pi. Applying this process, it's a situation that can never exist. Thus, pi is irrational.
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:24:06 AM PDT
by
grania
(Deplorable and Proud of It!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“People have been interested in the number for basically as long weve understood math.”
Not me. 3.14 is just fine as is. I have other things to do.
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:26:47 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
( Life is simpler, when you plow around the stump.)
To: Psalm 73
Ratio of whole number sized radius to infinitely fractioned circumference of circle.
Basically two different paradigm of measurement or coordinate system. One is cartesian square and the other speaks of angle and radius to define a position on a map. It is like two different units/methods of measurements which are converted using the number pi.
You also have logarithmic scales , square roots and many other sort of irrational numbers
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:33:33 AM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
To: Psalm 73
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Pi is so darn irrational!
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posted on
03/15/2018 3:58:44 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Since they know it’s infinite, why do they keep counting? And just who are counting, do they work in shifts?
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posted on
03/15/2018 4:02:02 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Good thing 4.20 day is only about a month away!
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posted on
03/15/2018 4:06:56 AM PDT
by
Macoozie
(Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
To: Macoozie
Too early in the day to start on such a math project......
Have to get my coffee first. (Enjoy your challenge)
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posted on
03/15/2018 4:32:55 AM PDT
by
DaveA37
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I never fully understood pie are squared thingy as all the pies I’ve ever laid eyes on have been round.
To: Psalm 73
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_π_is_irrational
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posted on
03/15/2018 4:41:10 AM PDT
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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