Maybe pi is right and all the other numbers are WRONG.
Pi is what we've been considering "3" -- and "3" is actually 3.14etc.
This must be what going mad feels like.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Aug 14, 2006 10:42:17 am PDT #2516 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Topic!Cindy - Aug 14, 2006 10:43:46 am PDT #2517 of 10001
What is even happening?
ETA Please note that I do not think that pi is three. I just, frankly, not even remembering that pi is the circumferance divided by the diameter or vice versa without looking it up, have no more proff in my head that pi is 3.14 than that pi is three. Although I am sure it could be proved to my satisfaction. But I have faith in pi being 3.14
Hee! Sophia, I googled "calculator with pi" to get more digits than 3.14. The first hit was this: [link]
I plugged 30.00000 in for the circumference, and 10.00000 in for the diameter, and the calculator gave me "3" as the answer for both "calculated pi" and "rounded pi". I wish I understood.
Jessica - Aug 14, 2006 10:51:23 am PDT #2518 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I plugged 30.00000 in for the circumference, and 10.00000 in for the diameter, and the calculator gave me "3" as the answer for both "calculated pi" and "rounded pi". I wish I understood.
You can't have a circle with those dimensions, is the problem -- the calculator is telling you that 30/10=3, which is a completely useless piece of information that has nothing to do with Pi. (What it should really do is let you plug in either the diameter OR the circumference, and use Pi to tell you the other one.)
Frankenbuddha - Aug 14, 2006 10:52:08 am PDT #2519 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Mmmmmm, pi.
Burrell - Aug 14, 2006 10:52:31 am PDT #2520 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Egad, Plei, that baby girl of yours is unbearably cute. She looks like a real live kewpie doll. Tell me you are dressing her up as Bettie Boop for Halloween? I want to find a Max the Wild Thing costume for Isaac. It's his favorite book right now. Plus he kinda looks like Maurice Sendak drew him.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 14, 2006 10:53:44 am PDT #2521 of 10001
What is even happening?
That's what I was hoping it would do, Jess. But if you only enter (for example) the circumference, it tells you the diameter is zero and both calculated and rounded pi are infinity.
I suspect the mathers are having one over on me.
Burrell - Aug 14, 2006 10:53:58 am PDT #2522 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Mmmmmm, pi.
Ah ha ha ha ha! hmm.
I'm hungry.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 14, 2006 10:58:29 am PDT #2523 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'll be over here eyerolling about the "hotness" of Africa.
I'm all for anything that offers the slightest hope of Paris Hilton travelling there and presenting the appearance of emaciated weakness to large predators.
Jessica - Aug 14, 2006 10:58:51 am PDT #2524 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But if you only enter (for example) the circumference, it tells you the diameter is zero and both calculated and rounded pi are infinity.
Yeah, I noticed that too. It's an unbelievably badly coded page, in both mathy and java terms.
Paul's Page of Pi has a few different ways to calculate the extra digits.
This page lists the first few thousand of them.
My middle school had Pi written on the walls of one stairwell (this was a math/science magnet program, and the stairwell in question led to the computer lab), and so I managed to memorize the first 10-ish digits purely by osmosis. (3.1415926535897...)
msbelle - Aug 14, 2006 10:59:29 am PDT #2525 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I want to find a Max the Wild Thing costume for Isaac.
CUTE!