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To: allmost

I believe Pi is only an approximate to start with...so this means nothing.


28 posted on 04/30/2011 3:34:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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There are exact formulas. They do not have closed forms, and they converge very slowly.

As I recall, one of them is [4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7......]
After 10000 terms, MS Works gives 3.141492654, good to only 3 digits.

I will agree that on cheap computers, the least significant digits cannot be trusted.


40 posted on 04/30/2011 8:04:09 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Sacajaweau
I believe Pi is only an approximate to start with...so this means nothing.

π or pi is an exact, real number. It is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter. But it's not a rational number, i.e., it cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers. So it is our representation of pi as a decimal number that is an approximation. But pi is exact.

53 posted on 04/30/2011 2:06:04 PM PDT by stripes1776
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