[P.O.E.]

I say we round it to three. We’re already rounding it by an infinite number of digits, what’s a few more.

[Reno89519]

One of my twins knows it to 51, won challenge at school yesterday. The other knows it to about mid-20s.

If you are calculating the circumference of a pizza, you don't need many digits. But try it with the circumference of an orbit, say of the International Space Station. The digits begin to really matter. I know it out to about 15 and much prefer simply using a calculator!

[Psalm 73]

Is there some type of math function that would tell us Pi will repeat the pattern at some point down the road if we calculate it out far enough?
Or are we certain that the numbers will forever be random with no pattern ever?

[equaviator]

Even in Geometry there is no such thing as a perfect circle. If there was we’d have found the final decimal place for Pi by now. No matter how many points are used to define a circle at any radius, it will still have its corners at every point.

[grania]

A nice pre-technology method for determining the circumference of a circle of with diameter 1 is to take the average of its circumscribed and inscribed polygons. That's because pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. As the number of sides of those polygons increases, the average approaches pi.

Obviously, pi will never have an exact value. The number of sides of those polygons can increase without limit. I don't understand why it took all of these geniuses and all of that computer time to try to find an exact value for pi. Applying this process, it's a situation that can never exist. Thus, pi is irrational.

[Carriage Hill]

“People have been interested in the number for basically as long we’ve understood math.”

Not me. 3.14 is just fine as is. I have other things to do.

[GingisK]

Pi is so darn irrational!

[Hot Tabasco]

Since they know it’s infinite, why do they keep counting? And just who are counting, do they work in shifts?

[Macoozie]

Good thing 4.20 day is only about a month away!

[redfreedom]

I never fully understood pie are squared thingy as all the pies I’ve ever laid eyes on have been round.

[z3n]

Sometimes I wonder if stuff like this is a kind of mathematical sarcasm.
You can’t reach the last digit of pi because you can’t reach infinity. The formula for pie simply rounds the corners off the tangents of a circle and the the deeper you calculate, the more perfect the circle. You can’t have a calculation perfectly round circle. It will simply grow forever in it’s precision

[Phlap]

Pi, like the square root of two and many others, are irrational numbers. There is no end to them. And in that way they are like Bill Clinton who isn’t circumcised because there is no end to that pr*ck. lol

[central_va]

22/7 = Pi.

[SkyDancer]

Not a problem. Some schools are changing Pi to 3.0 because you know, terrified snowflakes having their self esteem damaged.

[Moltke]

Well, what did they expect? It’s an irrational number, maybe they should look up the definition for that.

[Wuli]

Just leave my pie alone.

[JoeFromSidney]

My son, an engineer at NASA Goddard, jokes that his password is the last four digits of Pi. I'm glad he can remember them.

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