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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???
To: Tennessee_Bob
Ya,...I knew that. You just beat me to it.
To: Bill Rice
You mean 1010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000?
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12/08/2001 4:44:31 PM PST
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sigSEGV
To: AmishDude
Fractals are pretty.:-)
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To: AAABEST
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12/08/2001 4:48:03 PM PST
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tet68
To: stands2reason
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......
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12/08/2001 4:49:55 PM PST
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whoever
To: ambrose
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posted on
12/08/2001 4:50:09 PM PST
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Faraday
To: ambrose
Why not post something more weighty like "Does anyone have the time?"
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.
To: Aurelius
Thanks for the explanation.
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12/08/2001 4:54:34 PM PST
by
Faraday
To: AmericaUnited
Read your own post, the time is right there, and it was right when you asked the question.
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.
To: Faraday
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12/08/2001 4:59:43 PM PST
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Faraday
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.
To: Waeismic
Try squaring the circle. (he, he, he!)
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.
To: woollyone
Not in three dimensions.
To: Aurelius
Just trying to prove a number is transcendental is ridiculously hard.
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