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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: ambrose
Years ago, I knew how the value of pi was determined. Since more than a few Freepers appear to understand pi, how is it determined???
161 posted on 12/08/2001 4:43:05 PM PST by OldEagle
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To: Tennessee_Bob
Ya,...I knew that. You just beat me to it.
162 posted on 12/08/2001 4:43:43 PM PST by bobzeetwin
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To: Bill Rice
You mean 1010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000?
163 posted on 12/08/2001 4:44:31 PM PST by sigSEGV
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To: AmishDude
Fractals are pretty.:-)
164 posted on 12/08/2001 4:46:25 PM PST by stands2reason
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166 posted on 12/08/2001 4:48:03 PM PST by tet68
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167 posted on 12/08/2001 4:48:49 PM PST by Tennessee_Bob
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To: Valin
I am so sorry. I did not mean to repeat your post. I replied before I read the rest of the thread. Will teach me, maybe......
168 posted on 12/08/2001 4:49:55 PM PST by whoever
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To: ambrose
For everything you might ever want to know about pi there is The Web Page Dedicated to Pi(TM). In particular for pi expressed to 120,000 places see this.
169 posted on 12/08/2001 4:50:09 PM PST by Faraday
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To: ambrose
Why not post something more weighty like "Does anyone have the time?"
170 posted on 12/08/2001 4:53:12 PM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: AmishDude
There is a story, (I could look it up but am too lazy) of a Geman mathematician, named Ludolf, I believe, who worked to compute pi to more decimal places than anyone previously had done. He had his answer engraved on his tombstone. It turned out most of the digits were wrong.
171 posted on 12/08/2001 4:53:13 PM PST by Aurelius
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To: Aurelius
Thanks for the explanation.
172 posted on 12/08/2001 4:54:34 PM PST by Faraday
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To: AmericaUnited
Read your own post, the time is right there, and it was right when you asked the question.
173 posted on 12/08/2001 4:54:50 PM PST by Aurelius
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To: ambrose
I think everyone is missing the point here.

Remember that the area of a circle A = Pi*R*R. Now if we knew the square root of Pi (let's just call it Q such that Q*Q=Pi) then we could express the area of a circle as A=Q*Q*R*R and we would be able to "square the circle" by constructing a square that is Q*R on a side and whose area is Q*R times Q*R and is equal to the area of our circle.

I am certain that the search for a formula for Pi and the square root of Pi kept the ancient mathematicians awake at night. The smart ones figured out how to do it with nothing more than the Pythagorian Theorem and a converging successive approximation for computing square roots.

174 posted on 12/08/2001 4:55:45 PM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: Faraday
Seems the link got fouled. Try this for The Web Page Dedicated to Pi(TM).
175 posted on 12/08/2001 4:59:43 PM PST by Faraday
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To: Bill Rice
Has anyone ever heard of a googleplex?

Yes, ten to the google power. It has so many zeros in it, that all the atoms in the universe could not write it out, accord to Sagan.

176 posted on 12/08/2001 5:02:34 PM PST by Always Right
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To: Waeismic
Try squaring the circle. (he, he, he!)
177 posted on 12/08/2001 5:04:12 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: Faraday; AmishDude
Maybe I should stop, but will take up cardinality. As AmishDude said the rational numbers have the same cardinality as the integers; it can be shown that the algebraic numbers also have that cardinality. So the transcendental numbers have to "make up the difference" and have the same cardinality as the real numbers. It is sort of amusing that we know so few of them.
178 posted on 12/08/2001 5:04:38 PM PST by Aurelius
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To: woollyone
Not in three dimensions.
179 posted on 12/08/2001 5:05:35 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: Aurelius
Just trying to prove a number is transcendental is ridiculously hard.
180 posted on 12/08/2001 5:14:24 PM PST by AmishDude
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