LonghornPlatinum, eatcher heart out

[DesertFox]

SALEM, Va. - A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of Pi — the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal — likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world.

Gaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially place third in national and North American Pi recitation and 12th in the world.

More (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060316/ap_on_sc/pi_prodigy)

[Longhorn_Platinum]

LonghornPlatinum, eatcher heart out

:sulk: That's just gross.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:smirky: I once quoted pi before a class as "3.14159265..." One girl asked me to repeat it, then told me I was wrong,...

:rolleyes: ...since her calculator said it was "3.1415927".

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

I hate math, :smirky: . . .


EDIT: But I LOVE Pie! Weebl and Bob - pie (http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/pie.htm) *


* Props to Elgalad for the linkie-pooh!

[DoctorDoom]

Pi to one million digits (http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/semiconductors/theory/collabs/pi/pi6.txt)

Mathematician Hermann Schubert offers an example to show the uselessness of hundreds of digits of PI:

Conceive a sphere constructed with the earth at its center, and imagine its surface to pass through Sirius, which is 8.8 light years distant from the earth [that is, light, traveling at a velocity of 186,000 miles per second, takes 8.8 years to cover this distance]. Then imagine this enormous sphere to be so packed with microbes that in every cubic millimeter millions of millions of these diminuitive animalcula are present. Now conceive these microbes to be unpacked and so distributed singly along a straight line that every two microbes are as far distant from each other as Sirius from us, 8.8 light years. Conceive the long line thus fixed by all the microbes as the diameter of a circle, and imagine its circumference to be calculated by multiplying its diameter by PI to 100 decimal places. Then, in the case of a circle of this enormous magnitude even, the circumference so calculated would not vary from the real circumference by a millionth part of a millimeter.Paul's Page of Pi (http://www.escape.com/~paulg53/math/pi/)

[Charity]

Pi.....anyone say PI? Now I am hungry. Apple for me please :-)

[DeclinetoState]

Hillbilly's understanding of pi r^<SUPER>2</SUPER> (pi r square): "Pie aren't square! Pie are round. Cornbread are square!"

[DeclinetoState]

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Mathlinks/pi.gif

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Mathlinks/Pi.html

I shudder to think what the long proof looks like.

[BEST45CAL]

SALEM, Va. - A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of Pi — the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal — likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world.

Gaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially place third in national and North American Pi recitation and 12th in the world.

WHY?:question:

I'm sorry, but it sounds like Rajav needs to find himself a girlfriend. LOL

[Wolfcounsel]

WHAAA? Dang, my coffee fell asleep!

[Bob_Arctor]

:smirky: I once quoted pi before a class as "3.14159265..." One girl asked me to repeat it, then told me I was wrong,...

:rolleyes: ...since her calculator said it was "3.1415927".
Ouch! heheheh

[Riverboat]

WHAAA? Dang, my coffee fell asleep!
:hahaha:

Didja switch to decaf?

I don't quibble with such nonsense. After all, I'm a rational man, and irrational numbers such a pi are beneath my consideration. ;)

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:moo: If you like pi, you're just gonna love phi. For more, GO HERE. (http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt669/Student.Folders/Frietag.Mark/Homepage/Goldenratio/goldenratio.html)

[DeclinetoState]

:smirky: I once quoted pi before a class as "3.14159265..." One girl asked me to repeat it, then told me I was wrong,...

:rolleyes: ...since her calculator said it was "3.1415927".

Didja ever figure out how much of a difference that is in the real world?

Imagine a circle with a diameter of 100 km (about 62.1 mi). It's circumference must be about 314.16 km, or 314 km, 160 m. Actually, though, it's 314 km, 159 m, 26.5 (L_P) or 27 (L_P's student's calculator) cm. In other words, the discrepancy is equal to 5 mm (or 0.2") in the circumference of a circle with a diameter of over 62 mi.

[DoctorDoom]

A "how can it be?" factoid:

If we have a perfectly round sphere one million miles in diameter, and a steel band wrapped around it's "equator", if we increase the length of the band by 2π inches, it will be one inch from the surface of the sphere all the way around it.

C = π x D; ergo D = C / π.

If C = 1000 inches, C / π = 318.30988618379067153776752674503 inches

If C = 1006.2831853071795864769252867666, C / π = 320.30988618379067153776752674503

Adding 2π inches to the circumerence of any circle increases its diameter by 2 inches.

[Lubbock]

Cornbread are square?

Mine are round, 'cause I cook 'em in a cast iron skillet.