Do you know Pi?

[anna~marie]

*ahem*
link

[KenWittlief]

isnt there a program that lets you search for stuff like your birth day, phone number, or SSI number in PI, to see how far it you have to go to find the 1st instance of it?

now I wondering if (314) 159-2653 is someones phone number?

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

isnt there a program that lets you search for stuff like your birth day, phone number, or SSI number in PI, to see how far it you have to go to find the 1st instance of it?

now I wondering if (314) 159-2653 is someones phone number?

If so it's in my area (STL) ... trying now ... nope.

Guess 159 is not a valid prefix.

[MattD]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

isnt there a program that lets you search for stuff like your birth day, phone number, or SSI number in PI, to see how far it you have to go to find the 1st instance of it?

Yes, you can search through the first 200 million digits of Pi here.

[Michael Hill]

sqrt( 6 * sum( 1/(n^2), n, 1, infinity) )

OOPS, I've said too much!

[Lil' Lavery]

Pi=C/(2r)
or
Pi=A/(r^2)

I win


Now, who can tell me Phi?

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Now, who can tell me Phi?

.5(1+(5)^.5) = phi

...But I prefer to truncate the .618... part so I can count, phi, e, pi as 1, 2, 3, respectively..

...come to think of it, those minor truncations and roundings I've made may be the source of most of my problems in math this semester...

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by mgreenley

.5(1+(5)^.5) = phi

...But I prefer to truncate the .618... part so I can count, phi, e, pi as 1, 2, 3, respectively..

...come to think of it, those minor truncations and roundings I've made may be the source of most of my problems in math this semester...

Phi is the larger solution of x - 1 = 1/x, often called the Golden Mean.

So is it pronounced "fee" or "fie" ?

Next question: who can tell me "fo" ? (Too easy. It's the integer successor of three.)

Then who can tell me "fum" ?

[verbal abuse166]

still I'd have to say I like pi more (probably just because once i was board and memorized 42 digits of it) as well as board I'm too lazy to chant them off, but pi was like my symbol in my old school, so i never forgot the digits because everyone always had me recite them

[KenWittlief]

given how we memorize everything else, is there a PI song ?

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by Richard

Then who can tell me "fum" ?

Fum is solving math problems, as in "I love Math! It is a lot of Fum!"

[KenWittlief]

Math is Fun!

http://explodingdog.com/aug3/mathisfun.html