What is the square root of pi?

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[ambrose]

What is the square root of pi?

[Robert A Cook PE]

To get the exact value of pi ....

Take a verrrrrrrrrrrry accurate ruler and measure the distance around the crust.

Then just divide by the diameter of the pan.

Unless you're in Canada .... Up there, pi is in metric units.

[samtheman]

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

When you draw an equilateral triangle on the surface of a sphere, each angle is greater than 60 degrees. As the sphere gets smaller, the angle-size gets larger. Can it reach 90 degrees, or is that approached as a limit?

I don't know.

[Faraday]

You don't know what you are talking about.

Be that as it may. I presented an argument (valid, I think.) I am not a mathematician, just a humble physical chemist. I understand that there are orders to infinities. Nevertheless, your assertion is not a refutation to the argument presented.

[Sabertooth]

And this...

[Robert A Cook PE]

Tau Beta Pi cheer ....

[nancetc]

Is the square root of pi a cake or brownie?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ah hah ... physical chemist, eh?

That's explains it. So, like my wife, (a chemical engineer), you guys think that electrons are important and actually "do" things.

We nuclear types, on the other hand, know that electrons are so light that they can be neglected in the bigger scheme of life. (Is ther life outside the nucleaus?) 8<)

[dread78645]

Taylor sez:
 pi = 4 * (1/1 - 1/3 + 1/5 -1/7 + 1/9 . . .)

[Always Right]

sq. root of pi = sq. root of area/diameter, by defintion

[Sabertooth]

Can it reach 90 degrees, or is that approached as a limit?

Yes, it can reach 90 degress at all three angles on a sphere.

Consider drawing two line segments southward from the North Pole, with a 90 degree angle between them, until they reached the Equator. The angles of the intersections of those lines at the Equator would also be 90 degrees, giving you three at 90.

[sigSEGV]

Speaking of irrational numbers, I always love telling people that .9999... is exactly 1.

[lewislynn]

There's a 1-1 correspondence between all points on the infinite plane and all points on the surface of a sphere

Then at what point can the sphere or plane no longer be dissected?

[Ole Okie]

Interestingly enough, the legislature of South Carolina (as I recall the state) once decided that pi was confusing the school kids and was too difficult to remember and interfered with tidy calculations. They therefore passed a law that the value of pi in South Carolina would henceforth be 3.00000.

Unfortunately, those well-meaning souls settled on a number whose square root is also irrational, and would be no simpler to handle than that for a more precise value for pi.

I guess they should have rounded up to 4.000. .

[ghostkatz]

I think the square root of negative one is one. What is the square root of the imaginary number, "i"? What is the square root of negative "i"?? Ghostkatz

[Robert A Cook PE]

"That really doesn't follow from the lack of a cosign. Errors would only multiply if in fact the loan were made, assuming that the mathematician were not employed at an investment banking house, or some facsimile thereof...."

Only at first glimpse ..... But as the probablity of the loan approached zero, the ratio of the value of the siner/cosiner approached infinity.

[Faraday]

We nuclear types, on the other hand, know that electrons are so light that they can be neglected in the bigger scheme of life.

Ah, the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Life is one place where electrons cannot be neglected. The nucleus provides the well, but the electrons do the work.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I tried a different ruler, but the Prince was occupied.

[jporcus]

Here's a very good approx of PI: Take the pattern 113355, divide the last 3 digits by the first 3, 355/113 = 3.141592... These first 7 digits are the same as those of PI.

[ThomasPaine2000]

wrong; pi are square, cake are round