What is the square root of pi?

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[ambrose]

What is the square root of pi?

[AmishDude]

A transcendental number is one that cannot be expressed via the usual arithmetic operations.

[Waeismic]

Darn my school teachers... but I was taught that pi=22/7 which is approx 3.142857 the only problem is that the 142857 keeps repeating in that calculation... and pi isn't supposed to repeat. ? Anyone know the calc that gives the value for pi? I was going from 3 and 1/7th.

[woollyone]

Is it possible for an equalateral triangle to consist of three 90 angles?

[ambrose]

Have you seen "Pi: Faith in Chaos"?

[sasquatch]

(cow flop)^.5

[willyboy22]

The square root of Pi equals 1.77245.... Since Pi is irrational we can never get an exact answer and we have to settle for an approximation.

[Faraday]

There's a 1-1 correspondence between all points on the infinite plane and all points on the surface of a sphere -- minus the North Pole. It's infinity.

Imagine a sphere entirely above an infinite flat plane. From any point on the plane, draw an infinite straight line through the center point of the sphere. The line will intersect the sphere at two points. These points are unique for each point on the flat plane surface. In cartesian geometry, the plane passing through the center of the sphere parallel to the exterior plane will intersect a circle on the sphere which no point on the plane can touch by the above method. Therefore the surface of a sphere has more than twice as many points as an infinite surface.

[Faraday]

Does this mean that every irrational number is also transcendental?

[AmishDude]

You don't know what you are talking about.

There is a 1-1 correspondence between, for example, the integers and the rational numbers, even though the integers form a strict subset of the rationals.

[BradyLS]

No, sorry. Haven't yet had the pleasure.

[samtheman]

Excel has a function called pi(). You just insert it inside the sqrt function:

sqrt(pi())

Then do a Format | Cell | Number and give it 14 decimal places. If you try to give it more than 14, you just get zeros in the decimal places after the 14th.

[AmishDude]

No. Transcendental is a subset of irrational. I don't know how many transcendental numbers there are, whether it's the cardinality of the integers or the reals.

e and pi are the only numbers I know to be transcendental, but sqrt(n) for any n not a perfect square is irrational but not transcendental.

[Valin]

What about sweet potato pie?

[Zon]

BTW, multiverse theories are commonplace, and go back to at least the Greeks.

They also had theories of the atom 2,300 years ago. How foolish would future scientists have been to have left it at that without expanding on the basic theory and working to prove or disprove it?

I'm no astro-physicists or whatever they're called that study such things. The first I heard mention of multiple universes was a year after I pictured my own theory which was surprisingly close to theirs.

[ambrose]

It is a definite "must see" flick. Lots of good special features on the DVD.

[rustbucket]

How I wish I could recollect pi easily today. 3.14159265 when you count the letters in each word.

Also the old school cheer:
Cosine, secant, tangent, sine
3 point 1 4 1 5 9
Square root, integral u d v
Slip stick, slide rule, MIT!

I guess 'slide rule' dates me.

[Sabertooth]

You might enjoy this...

[lewislynn]

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