A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi 729
Punk_Rock_Johnny points to an AP story on Pi-obsessed Professor Yasumasa Kanada. A snippet from the story: "Kanada and a team of researchers set a new world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, project team member Makoto Kudo said yesterday. The previous record, set by Kanada in 1999, was 206.158 billion places." Trillion!
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Well ... what is it? (Score:3, Funny)
If Pi were made into a classic video game... (Score:3, Funny)
heh.
Re:One simple question (Score:3, Funny)
Nyh!
The 1.24th trillion digit of pi is .. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:math question about pi (Score:5, Funny)
How to calculate PI yourself (Score:5, Funny)
Here's how it works. You'll need several boxes of toothpicks. Get a large piece of chart paper, and draw parallel lines on it, from one side to the other. The lines should be separated by a distance just slightly larger than the length of a toothpick.
From a height of about one metre, drop a measured number of toothpicks onto the chart paper, so that they all fall randomly somewhere on the paper. Count how many toothpicks are touching a line (or would be, if they weren't resting on another toothpick).
Repeat this process as many times as you can. Lots of people can do it at once. All that's important is that, each time you drop some toothpicks, you write down how many you dropped, and how many of those ended up touching a line. When you're done, find a total for each quantity.
You now have all the numbers you need to calculate Pi:
Now here's the formula you need to calculate Pi:
Fill them in the formula, and work out your own value of Pi!Faking it ... (Score:3, Funny)
I love this Quote (Score:5, Funny)
Um, you have 1.24 trillion digits of pi. I think you can begin a statisticall analisys now.
OMG! That's 4+2 !!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How to calculate PI yourself (Score:5, Funny)
You are toothpicks seller, aren't you?
Re:How? (Score:3, Funny)
Here's a program written in BrainF*ck to calculate pi: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jafowler/pi/pi. b [harvard.edu]
Here's the analysis of the program [harvard.edu], and a link to what the Turing-inspired BrainF*ck [catseye.mb.ca] programming language is about.
Re:Huge! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:math question about pi (Score:3, Funny)
You can write it as 0.5 (base 2Pi)
Re:You know ... you would think ... (Score:2, Funny)
Actually, if you divide two by three the 100000 trillionth digit would be "6"
Re:The 1.24th trillion digit of pi is .. (Score:2, Funny)
Bert: My favorite number is 6.
Ernie: Bert, nobody's favorite number is 6!
Cartman (Score:2, Funny)
No... more... pie...
-Zaphod
Re:How to calculate PI yourself (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I love this Quote (Score:2, Funny)
And if they occur randomly, how the heck can we know that the formulas we're using to calculate pi are correct?
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
MPAA forces have today invaded Canada, when asked their reasons they replied:
"While we were looking through through the binary version of Pi, and one of our special forces noticed that hidden in from digit 12,166,133,883 onwards was a c source to DeCSS. Obviously these terrorists must be stopped!"
When pointing out that it was Kanada, the researcher, and not Canada the country, the Canadian government sued for trademark violation [slashdot.org].
The case is not expected to hold up, as it is doubtful canada will be able to proove it has the computing power [mcgill.ca] to calculate Pi beyond 4 decimal places - and no confusion can occur.
Re:One simple question (Score:3, Funny)
there was an earlier /. article on pi (Score:2, Funny)
this means that any electronic file could be represented as a start and stop position within pi if you knew the proper place to be... in other news MPAA/RIAA declare PI to be illegal...
Full text of article: (Score:5, Funny)
Pi (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry about that. I just wanted to get your attention. Glayvin!
Bah - another incomplete article (Score:5, Funny)
I guess I'll have to wait for one of the page widening trolls to post it.
woh (Score:1, Funny)
woo (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well ... what is it? (Score:3, Funny)
(*) give or take. probably mostly take.
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Reminds me of that commercial... (Score:4, Funny)
Imagine this program screaming along calculating a few more trillion places when all of a sudden it stops. Pi is NOT infinite after all.
Imagine the hiliarity that would ensue (oops, wrong web site...)
download pi (Score:2, Funny)
long live pi. down with bell.
Re:Signature of God? (Score:2, Funny)
What we need right now is a distributed client to search for the ISO of a Linux 5.6 based distribution so that we can replace windows on the desktop. =-)
Re:Well ... what is it? (Score:0, Funny)
HA!
And cello! And violin! And guitar!
It's voila smartass
I happen to know (Score:2, Funny)
Just how is Pi calculated?
As a matter of fact, I happen to know that this system used a cunning mechanism containing a Canadian-built robotic arm, a No. 10 coffee can, a piece of string and a ruler. The machine measured the circumference and diameter of the can over and over again, and then sort of calculated the margin of error (correlated against 22/7) over and over again. And voila! It was discovered that pi is in fact 3.142857143...
Mind you, the article said they calculated pi to over a trillion places. They didn't say it was *accurate*.
Cheers,
Ethelred [grantham.de]
Re:Signature of God? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I dunno about you, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well ... what is it? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:One simple question (Score:3, Funny)
I don't need a 20 page proof to tell me the moderators are irrational.
Re:Full text of article: (Score:3, Funny)
If you don't think Pie recurrs... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:For comparison... (Score:4, Funny)
Not true. From http://www.google.com/press/facts.html:
Employees:
More than 500.
And they're not zeros, they're somebodies and they do an damn fine job at making a search engine.