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What is the square root of pi?
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Posted on 12/08/2001 2:26:08 PM PST by ambrose

What is the square root of pi?



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To: Lazamataz
Huh?
261 posted on 12/09/2001 4:08:54 AM PST by yarddog
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To: ambrose
All your pi are belong to us.
262 posted on 12/09/2001 4:24:47 AM PST by Ben Chad
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To: Otto von Bismark
Circumferance devided by diameter = Pi.
263 posted on 12/09/2001 4:46:44 AM PST by BADJOE
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To: WIMom
The only imaginary numbers I deal with have to do with future earnings and sex. : )

If it is an imaginary number, then it can be any number. I suppose I should have said there is no square root of any REAL Minus number.

In the prinicples of logic the words NO and ALL makes it distributed. Therefore it should have been understood that we were talking about Real Numbers. : )

264 posted on 12/09/2001 5:00:24 AM PST by BADJOE
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To: ambrose
Check out Peter Beckman's surprisingly entertaining book, History of Pi.

Pi is a transcedental number, which means that it cannot be expressed as the solution of an algebraic equation with a finite number of terms. (No, it does not mean it lives in a shack in woods in Massachusetts.) All transcendental numbers are irrational, which means that they cannot be expressed as the ratio of two whole numbers. (No, it does not mean they are life-long Democrats). As a consequence of this property, an irrational number can never expressed as a finite decimal fraction, else it would be equal to the decimal fraction without the "." over "1" followed by as many zeros as there are digits!

It should be easy to prove to yourself that if you could write a finite decimal expression for the square root of Pi you could square it, and have a finite decimal expression for Pi! And you would be famous, win a MacArthur foundation Genius grant, the Fields Medal and be the envy of all your friends.

Not all irrational numbers are transcendental, for instance x*x -2 = 0 has the roots +/-sqrt(2), so the sqrt(2) is irrational, but not transcendental.

Another familiar and useful transcendental number is "e", the base of natural logarithms. It the limit, as n approachs infinity of (1+1/n)^n or 1/0! + 1/1! + 1/2! ... to infinity. Or about 2.718281828...

265 posted on 12/09/2001 5:26:33 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: ambrose
(22/7) or, 3 1/7 or, (22/7)1/2 or, (3 1/7)1/2
266 posted on 12/09/2001 5:48:38 AM PST by PeaceBeWithYou
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To: ambrose
First you have to start with the value of pi which was written into law in Indiana:

Quite a boondoggle ---

http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/pi_indiana.html

267 posted on 12/09/2001 6:05:18 AM PST by MilleniumBug
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To: stands2reason
....what...was that a moose ??
268 posted on 12/09/2001 6:11:41 AM PST by Alabama_Wild_Man
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To: MilleniumBug
Read Beckman's book, #265. The bill never got out of committee, fortunately for the progress of Science along the Banks of the Wabash.
269 posted on 12/09/2001 6:16:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: PeaceBeWithYou
Try gamma(0.5) if you have matlab.
270 posted on 12/09/2001 7:10:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: yarddog
"However we can get close enough for government work, or any other for that matter."

Heck, close enought for gov't work would be ...oh...like... 12?

271 posted on 12/09/2001 7:23:39 AM PST by lawdude
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To: BADJOE
Also, there are hundreds of mathematical types on FR who look at every technicality.... LOL!
272 posted on 12/09/2001 7:27:07 AM PST by WIMom
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To: LibKill
While we are at it, what is the square root of negative 1?

"i"

273 posted on 12/09/2001 7:29:53 AM PST by maxwell
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To: go star go
what's wrong with you? all pies are round and most are not made from roots!

Sweet potato pie, anyone?

274 posted on 12/09/2001 7:32:10 AM PST by null and void
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To: editor-surveyor
"A CAT scan of my poor brain would reveal a hole where most people have their math ability."

What would a DOG scan reveal?

Someone barking up the wrong tree!!!

8-)

275 posted on 12/09/2001 7:37:52 AM PST by reg45
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To: nomasmojarras
Why is six afraid of seven?

Because seven eight nine.

But then six got an attack dog named five. What for?

Four five six seven.

276 posted on 12/09/2001 7:40:33 AM PST by JoeSchem
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To: 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.

I heard that it was Indiana. Which one (or perhaps both) did it?

279 posted on 12/09/2001 7:45:30 AM PST by reg45
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To: Partisan Hack
1.7724531023414977791280875500565
280 posted on 12/09/2001 7:48:32 AM PST by bert
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