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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: shortstop
LoanPalm: I'll take mathmatics for 600, Alex.

Alex: The answer is: 8 (ate) something.
ping
Alex: Yes LoanPalm?

LoanPalm: What is the square root of 69, Alex?
Alex: That is correct!

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

301 posted on 12/10/2001 2:15:39 PM PST by LonePalm
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To: Dengar01
What in the heck does that say?

Ask a Frog!

302 posted on 12/20/2001 7:01:03 PM PST by reg45
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To: ambrose
Öp
303 posted on 12/20/2001 7:08:36 PM PST by Redcloak
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To: ambrose
bump
304 posted on 06/28/2002 6:37:36 PM PDT by ambrose
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To: yarddog
Its an irrational number, so it belongs to the democratic party, not an infinate decimal number.
305 posted on 06/28/2002 7:16:13 PM PDT by MrNeutron1962
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To: Tabitha Soren
Are you logged in? Are you sure?
307 posted on 06/29/2002 9:57:42 AM PDT by LowOiL
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To: Aurelius; TheCPA
"Nobel prizes are no longer tax free.

And there is no Nobel prize for mathematics."

Yeah, the Nobel Prize for Mathematics was cancelled when they discovered that mathematicians couldn't figure out the tax code.

309 posted on 06/29/2002 10:14:13 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: ambrose
Undefined
310 posted on 06/29/2002 11:02:56 AM PDT by gwynapnudd
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To: Tabitha Soren
And you have to be the stupidest user on Free Republic.
311 posted on 06/29/2002 11:27:31 AM PDT by ambrose
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To: ambrose
The reason that pi can be calculated to an infinite number of decimal places is easy to see if you visualize it in the equation for calculating the area of a circle:

If you're familiar with Bresenham's algorithm and you relate it to the contour of a circle, you know that it's very difficult to draw a perfect circle. In one sense, you could argue that no perfect circle has ever been created because the precision required to draw one is beyond our capabilities. The "fluff" (or extra precision) in pi is a reflection of that reality.
312 posted on 06/29/2002 11:35:34 AM PDT by Bush2000
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To: Bush2000; one_particular_harbour
Oh sure, go ahead and use "fluffy" logic on us. 8<)

By the way, do you measure the inside or or the ouside of that cicumference?

In the EU, do you get arrest if you don't use the metric value of a dozen pie?
313 posted on 06/29/2002 7:30:13 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: yarddog
" However we can get close enough for government work, or any other for that matter."

Conceive a sphere constructed with the earth at it center, and imagine it surface to pass through Sirius, which is 8.8 light years distant from the earth... Then imagine this enormous sphere to be so packed with microbes that in every cubic millimeter millions and millions of these diminutive animalcula are present. Now conceive these microbes to be unpacked and so distributed singly along a straight line that every two microbes are as far distant from each other as Sirius is from us... Conceive the long line thus fixed by all the microbes at the diameter of a circle, and imagine its circumference to be calculated by multiplying it diameter by Pi to 100 decimal places. Then, in the case of a circle of this enormous magnatude even, the circumference so calculated would not vary from the real circumference by a millionth part of a millimeter. This example will suffice to show that the calculation of Pi to 100 or 500 decimal places is wholly useless. - Hermann Schubart, A mathematics professor from Hamburg, Germany in 1889

314 posted on 06/30/2002 3:55:37 PM PDT by Aurelius
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To: ambrose

What the hell am I doing here?


315 posted on 10/29/2004 9:15:18 PM PDT by Waco
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To: ambrose
E=Fb
316 posted on 10/29/2004 9:18:35 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: ambrose

answer this without a calculator: what is pi to the 12th? Kolchak asked an android this once.


317 posted on 10/29/2004 9:21:57 PM PDT by isom35
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To: LibKill
While we are at it, what is the square root of negative 1?

Aye.

318 posted on 10/29/2004 9:23:32 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Excuse_Me

Who cares?

They were arguing about it when I was in school over 50 years ago and the argument continues today!


319 posted on 10/29/2004 9:24:22 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: ambrose

Just like Joe Conason, the answer is irrational.


320 posted on 10/29/2004 9:29:17 PM PDT by asgardshill (Got a lump of coal? Tell Mary Mapes to 'shove it' - in 2 weeks you'll have a diamond.)
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