happy Pi day!!!

Started by teddy037.2, March 14, 2010, 06:07:15 AM

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teddy037.2

I was too lazy to type out the correction  :)

Piller

Has anyone ever found the end of PI?  Has anyone even found some kind of pattern?

teddy037.2

iirc it's non-repeating, and non-terminating

Popeye the Sailor

Quote from: Piller on March 14, 2010, 08:00:03 PM
Has anyone ever found the end of PI?  Has anyone even found some kind of pattern?

There is no pattern, or it could be shortened.

There is no end.

If the state had not cut funding for the mental institutions, this project could never have happened.

Piller

I like the golden mean better, it makes more sense.

Autostrada Pilot

Quote from: MrIncredible on March 14, 2010, 08:05:16 PM
There is no pattern, or it could be shortened.

There is no end.



I bet Chuck Norris found a pattern AND the end.
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Speedbag

No he created it to test the rest of us.
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superjohn

Quote from: teddy037.2 on March 14, 2010, 08:04:46 PM
iirc it's non-repeating, and non-terminating

Which leads to what I think is one of life's neatest little paradoxes. Draw any circle. It's finite. It's tangible. It's infinitely knowable. But its appearance is deceiving. What's the area of that finite knowable space? The EXACT area? You'll never know since Pi is non-terminating and non-repeating.

That little fact makes me happy for some reason. Something about having something completely unknown and unknowable sitting right there all nonchalant. Like it's normal. Almost invisible unless you think about it.