What is the square root of pi?

Me ^

[ambrose]

What is the square root of pi?

[bert]

If you carefully read the books, the Deep thought answer is "Forty-two" 40-2=38

[reg45]

A chemist, a physicist and a mathematician were attending a convention. They were in adjacent rooms. While they were sleeping a fire broke out. All three awoke to confront the fire:

 

The chemist saw the fire and thought A fire needs oxygen. He grabbed a blanket, smothered the fire, and went back to bed.

 

The physicist saw the fire and thought A fire needs heat. He grabbed a pitcher of water, poured it on the fire, and went back to bed.

 

The mathematician saw the fire, looked around the room, and saw a fire extinguisher. He thought A solution exists and went back to bed.

[reg45]

As I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to 100th power.

I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to the 10th power raised to the 10th power. Your definition would only be 10 raised to the 10th power raised to the 2nd power.

Nyah! Nyah! My googleplex is bigger than your googleplex!!!

8-)

[danmar]

I was told otherwise.It is a constant derived from dividing 22 by 7 wich equals 3.1428.

[Bill Rice]

"I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to the 10th power raised to the 10th power. Your definition would only be 10 raised to the 10th power raised to the 2nd power."

I knew that - I was just seeing if anyone was alert!

It's good that you guys were, the world needs more lerts.

[Bill Rice]

22/7 is just an easy way to approximate Pi.

[Poincare]

Since Pi is an infinitesimal number there is no exact square root, just as there is no exact number for Pi.

Public school?

[bwteim]

For all practical purposes Pi = 3.14

I agree, BadJoe, I like the rounding off for practical purposes.
Usually, I even go so far as to round that, BadJoe, for simplicity' sake.

• I round odd numbers down, so I put Pi to the nearest small odd number, which brings it to 1.
• Because then, since I like to calculate square roots exactly, I am easily able to determine that the SR of 1 is 1.00000000.
• So, since that is odd, then I round that down to the nearest integer, which makes it zero or 0.00000000000
• So, for all practical purposes Square Root of Pi = 0

;>)

[MHGinTN]

Your question resonates.

[bwteim]

BadJoe wrote: "For all practical purposes Pi = 3.14"

BadJoe, I made an error on the first statement. I was so taken in with the BCS standings I had to reevaluate.

I agree, BadJoe, I like the rounding off for practical purposes.
Usually, I even go so far as to round the numbers you came up with, for simplicity' sake.
For example:

1. I round [certain] odd numbers [like Pi] down, so I put Pi to the first] small odd number, which brings it to 1.
2. Because then, since I like to calculate square roots exactly, I am easily able to determine that the SR of 1 is 1.00000000.
3. So, since that is odd, then I round that down to the nearest integer, which makes it zero or 0.00000000000
4. So, for all practical purposes Square Root of Pi = 0

My answer of 0, is close to yours of 1.7728105, AFTER you subtract Miami's current BCS standings. 1.7728105 - 2.50 = -0.7271895

This, rounded off upwards, becomes 0 as well.

;>)

[samtheman]

As I recall from my college days, a googleplex was 10 raised to 100th power. I remember my physics teacher having us figure out how many seconds it had been to get us up to 1983, from when they started counting. This was only a small fraction of a googleplex.

A googleplex is much larger than the total number of all particles in the visible universe (as calculated by current astronomers). That number is on the order of 10 to the 50th power, which is a tiny tiny fraction of 10 to the 100th power.

[Aurelius]

"Nobel prizes are no longer tax free.:

And there is no Nobel prize for mathematics.

[RobbyS]

Ism't that transcendent number?

[Excuse_Me]

1.7724531023414977791280875500565

Incorrect after the sixth decimal place:
1.772453850905516027298167483341145182797549456122387128213807789852911284591032181374950656738544665416226823624282570666236152865724422602525093709602787068462037698653105122849925173028950826228932095379267962800174639015351479720516700190185234018585446974494912640313921775525906216405419332500906398407613733477475153433667989789365851836408795451165161738760059067393431791332809854846248184902054654852195613251561647467515042738761056107996127107210060372044483672365296613708094323498831668424213845709609120420427785778068694766570005218305685125413396636944654181510716693883321942929357062268865224420542149948049920756486398874838505930640218214029285811233064978945203621149078962287389403245978198513134871266512506293260044656382109675026812496930595420461560761952217391525070207792758099054332900662223067614469661248188743069978835205061464443854185307973574257179185635959749959952263849242203889103966406447293972841345043002140564233433039261756134176336320017037654163476320692
is accurate to 1000 places. You must have started with a value of Pi that is shorter than your answer. I started with Pi calculated to 2000 places.

[ambrose]

bump

[tang-soo]

Area of circle = Pi R * R
Pi R Square? No, pie are round, cornbread are square!

[bwteim]

It just goes to show, how, when great minds such as ours get together we can simplify mathematics - instead of that so-called scientific evidence in post 295...beginning with that long string of digits, 1.77245385090551602729816748334114518279754945612238712821380778985291 ad nauseum.

Zero (0), the rounded off square root of pi, is much easier to remember. And zero can be used in many more situations than that long number. It's a candy bar, a Jap fighter plane, the first name of a famous comedian - you name it, as well as the square root of pi....

[Ole Okie]

It was Indiana in 1897 that simplified pi to 3. I had remembered it as South Carolina.

[k2blader]

Need an abacus for Christmas? :-D