Pie - the number

[miami gulf]

Just wondering - does it go on forever?

[137699]

Re: Pie - the number

Well it's been around for a long time already (oooh at least 30 years since I started secondary school) and it's still around now... may go on forever....?

[herman1rg]

Re: Pie - the number

Pi or Pie?

[137699]

Re: Pie - the number

Or Pye?
Weren't they the cheaper version of Philips TVs in the 70's?

[Thrumbleux]

Re: Pie - the number

Still here - but going fast....

0003VL-9150.jpg <<

[herman1rg]

Re: Pie - the number

Pi-Pie-69299.jpgA Pi Pie

[mocelet]

Re: Pie - the number

According to Wikipedia, they have calculated ~10^13 (that is ~10,000,000,000,000, or 10 trillion) digits of Pi so far.

In fact, it not only has an infinite number of digits (which is relatively common, even 1/3 has an infinite number of decimal digits being 1.33333 with as many 3s as you care to add), but it cannot be represented accurately by a fraction. 22/7 (=3.14285714) is close enough for many uses, but is not the whole answer.

My preferred way of remembering the first few digits of Pi is in the number of letters in each of the words in the phrase "How I wish I could enumerate Pi easily".

[madDan]

Re: Pie - the number

You need to get out more Ian!

[problemchild1976]

Re: Pie - the number

Goes on for ever and as far as they know has no recurring pattern.

My mate could remember about 24 numbes of it...... I told him just to press the button on his calculator.

And yeah - its Pi ....

Physicists have noted the ubiquity of pi in nature. Pi is obvious in the disks of the moon and the sun. The double helix of DNA revolves around pi. Pi hides in the rainbow, and sits in the pupil of the eye, and when a raindrop falls into water pi emerges in the spreading rings. Pi can be found in waves and ripples and spectra of all kinds, and therefore pi occurs in colours and music. Pi has lately turned up in superstrings.

Pi occurs naturally in tables of death, in what is known as a Gaussian distribution of deaths in a population; that is, when a person dies, the event "feels" pi. It is one of the great mysteries why nature seems to know mathematics. - Britannia

JJ

[NBC]

Re: Pie - the number

Life of Pi ?

[Roadster]

Re: Pie - the number

My preferred way of remembering the first few digits of Pi...

I think it's easier to remember this song... no?

[NBC]

Re: Pie - the number

Definitely - American Pi ...

[problemchild1976]

Re: Pie - the number

i know all the words to that...... and the wierd al yankovic one

JJ

[otv]

Re: Pie - the number

never has 2 numbers the same in sequence either <**** fact of the day>

[herman1rg]

Re: Pie - the number

There is also TAU

http://tauday.com/