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The number that fascinates physicists above all others
Cosmos Magazine ^
| Paul Davies
Posted on 02/20/2016 2:09:29 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Bump chase I’m an idiot and want to look smart.
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posted on
02/20/2016 2:35:40 PM PST
by
Springman
(Rest In Peace YaYa123, Bahbah, and Just Lori.)
To: MtnClimber
One is the loneliest number.
To: Springman
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posted on
02/20/2016 2:36:59 PM PST
by
Springman
(Rest In Peace YaYa123, Bahbah, and Just Lori.)
To: outofsalt
To: TBP
It must be the one from the wave equations because they show how quantum tunneling occurs. Not just theory, but how tunnel diodes actually work. (the disappearing cat got tunneled)
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posted on
02/20/2016 2:40:00 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: central_va
"One is the loneliest number"
And Zer0 is in the White House." :(
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posted on
02/20/2016 2:41:18 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: HangnJudge
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posted on
02/20/2016 2:41:29 PM PST
by
beethovenfan
(Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
To: HangnJudge
e^iϖ + 1 = 0
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posted on
02/20/2016 2:42:03 PM PST
by
HangnJudge
(Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
To: Aliska
22/7 = 3.1428571428577143
Actual 3.1415926535897932
A mnemonic for remembering pi to twenty-one places ...
How I wish I could recollect pi.
“Eureka,” cried the great inventor.
“Christmas pudding, Christmas pie,
is the problem’s very center!”
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posted on
02/20/2016 2:46:04 PM PST
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: Aliska
Maybe I can avoid the smart symbol for Pi by using 22/7 and everyone will understand, of course!
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posted on
02/20/2016 2:52:26 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
This curious number is therefore a universal constant of nature - "God given" Jeans might have said.
Or "gosh numbers" as Fred Pohl would have said.
To: TBP
“The odds of that happening...”
Wow, just how many universes did you visit and measure to collect enough data for your conclusion?
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posted on
02/20/2016 2:58:27 PM PST
by
Go_Raiders
(Freedom doesn't give you the right to take from others, no matter how innocent your program sounds.)
To: sparklite2
Is the Pi approximation like terminating a Taylor Series approximation?
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posted on
02/20/2016 2:59:49 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: TBP
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:03:09 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: MtnClimber
I suppose it depends on whether
or not your interstitial migration
is asymptotic.
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:10:17 PM PST
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: sparklite2
I should have known better as I did "kinda" remember it to the 159, no somehow I remember it as 3.1416, and that is the right number, rounded.
I can't associate the little jingle to the decimals, sorry. Kind of preoccupied with something else today, was trying to get my mind off it.
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:11:28 PM PST
by
Aliska
("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
To: Aliska
In the jingle, the number of letters in each word is a number in the pi sequence, so that “How I wish” becomes 314. Just insert the decimal point after the three, and pi to 21 places can be found. Great for parties. ;)
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:15:10 PM PST
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: MtnClimber
I’ve seen Pi in bases other than 10, example, 7 and 12. So, what would happen...?
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:19:51 PM PST
by
Excellence
(Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
To: Excellence
Do you mean, in different bases would it show up in the same smart symbol gibberish? I think so.
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:24:43 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Exactly like terminating Taylor. You can get pi from the simple series 4*Taylor(arctan(1)), or more efficiently from the somewhat uglier 2*Taylor(arcsin(1)). /MathNerd
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posted on
02/20/2016 3:30:10 PM PST
by
Pollster1
("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless." - Scalia)
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