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Happy Pi Day!
« on: March 14, 2008, 15:42:37 »
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2008, 16:02:13 »
Think I'll get one for my tea then :drool:
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2008, 16:42:15 »
Interesting article. Or am I just being a geek?  :oops: :lol:
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2008, 16:53:59 »
Pie.
Pie pie pie pie.


PIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2008, 21:49:15 »
As 3.14 (or 3/14 in Yank-speak) is only a rough approximation for Pi why doesn't the UK shove it up our colonial cousins and have our own Pi day on 22/7 (22nd July in real English) which is the true value of this much maligned constant?
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2008, 20:10:51 »
That's true, 22/7 is exact.

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Re: Happy Pi Day!
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2008, 21:55:11 »
Nope, apparently 22/7 is only an approximation for pi,  As is 355/133 :-o

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Re: Happy Pi Day!
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2008, 00:43:24 »
More pie
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2008, 00:44:15 »
even more pie
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2008, 10:15:32 »
Quote from: datalas on March 15, 2008, 21:55:11
Nope, apparently 22/7 is only an approximation for pi,  As is 355/133 :-o



Okay, 22/7 (or any other fraction containing only integers) is still an approximation but it's closer than 3.14

Being an irrational number it's beyond even our most powerful computers powers to resolve it satisfactorily. IIRC the best effort, so far, is about 1 trillion (10^12) decimal places. For the pedants amongst us it's also a transendental number  :-k
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