Pi?

Killyourking

Yes.

Posers and Puzzles

28 Nov 04

fearlessleader

my head

Joined: 03 Oct 03
Moves: 671

10 Dec 04

Originally posted by observantU
In that case the digits in pi can be used to generate random numbers. But why should it be so remarkably evenly distributed?

because if you look at geomitry from an impartial prespective, then the value of pi is abitrary, even random. the chances of it being anything we can name are infinity to one.

Officer Dibble

Hoagy's Alley

Joined: 12 Sep 04
Moves: 41791

12 Dec 04

Off the top of my head: 3.141592653589793238462
which seems to be 21 decimal places.

I'm not proud of this, and I'm sure it serves no useful purpose to me.

Sometimes I catch myself counting backwards in German.

genius

Wayward Soul

Your Blackened Sky

Joined: 12 Mar 02
Moves: 15128

13 Dec 04

i know a guy that memorised pi to 30 decimal places becuase, when he was younger, he saw a Japanese TV show where contestants won £1000 (or whatever the japanese equivalent is) for reciting Pi to 30 decimal places.

so he memorised it

just in case...

Testrider

Somewhere out there!

Joined: 09 Nov 04
Moves: 2700

14 Dec 04

Can't get much further than 3.14159265358 but I'm not sure about the last few.

THUDandBLUNDER

Joined: 29 Feb 04
Moves: 22

14 Dec 04

How about mnemonics for pi or e?

genius

Wayward Soul

Your Blackened Sky

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14 Dec 04

1 edit

e=2+1/(2!)+1/(3!)+1/(4!)+1/(5!)+...

CoolPlayer

Joined: 30 Oct 04
Moves: 2295

26 Dec 04

Originally posted by genius
e=2+1/(2!)+1/(3!)+1/(4!)+1/(5!)+...

e = 2.7 1828 1828 45 90 45 235382 7550....
the first 15 digits are easy to remember..