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  • Pie - the number

    Just wondering - does it go on forever?

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    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....?

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      Pi or Pie?
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      • #4
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        Or Pye?
        Weren't they the cheaper version of Philips TVs in the 70's?

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        • #5
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          Still here - but going fast....

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          • #6
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            Pi-Pie-69299.jpgA Pi Pie
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              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".
              Last edited by mocelet; 08-07-12, 09:19 PM.

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              • #8
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                You need to get out more Ian!

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                • #9
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                  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
                  Last edited by problemchild1976; 08-07-12, 11:29 PM.

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                  • #10
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                    Life of Pi ?

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                    • #11
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                      Originally posted by mocelet View Post
                      My preferred way of remembering the first few digits of Pi...
                      I think it's easier to remember this song... no?

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                      • #12
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                        Definitely - American Pi ...

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                        • #13
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                          i know all the words to that...... and the wierd al yankovic one

                          JJ

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                          • #14
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                            never has 2 numbers the same in sequence either <**** fact of the day>

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                            • #15
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                              There is also TAU

                              For millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant &#960; captured the geometry of the circle in a single number. But &#960; is wrong, and it&#8217;s time to set things right.
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