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Happy Pi Day 2007!
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Not quite
Leading zeros on the whole number are irrelevant, trailing zeros on the decimal are irrelevant
04 = 4
4.10 = 4.1
Irrelevant doesn't mean not there
Actually that means every number has an infinite number of zeros after the decimal point and thus none of them end. If the trailing zeros are there then
4.1=4.10=4.1000=4.1000000000000000000
thus 4.1 is a never ending decimal. To defined the end would be the last non-zero digit after the decimal point. Thus 1-9 are the valid choices.
Unless you are using significant digits to keep track of precision through calculations but that's a whole different debate/discussion.
i guess i'll have to eat some cake and pretend its pie as the only pie in the house is for my mother.
Pi trick
In October 2001, Professor Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy, who writes interesting math papers, gave a demonstration of juggling while recited pi. Luckily, it was captured on film.
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I have yet to find a video of somebody juggling while eating pie.
In October 2001, Professor Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy, who writes interesting math papers, gave a demonstration of juggling while recited pi. Luckily, it was captured on film.
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I have yet to find a video of somebody juggling while eating pie.
If I were to bake something for the occasion, it would HAVE to be a pie, right? Would any circular tastiness do? a Pi cake?
This thread is making my head hurt.
If you take the circumference of your head and divide it by the diameter of your head and get Pi then your head is a circle!
As research shows, cutting a pie to be shared by N people so that each of them thinks they have the biggest piece, the so-called envy-free pie-division problem, requires on the order of N^2 cuts. So for the 101,223 members of MacRumors, we'll need on the order of 10 billion cuts, and the pieces are gonna be rather small.
Maybe we could exclude inactive members and those on a diet.
Better yet, only those who post in this thread get to share the pi(e).
I'll take some of the Pi(e). and I don't know why I am even reading this thread, I'm tired of math after just getting out of Geometry
Puzzle time
True or false? -
True or false? -
If we notice that SilentPanda's head is a perfect circle, and we measure the circumference and diameter very precisely, we will get the value of pi on our calculator when we divide the first number by the second.
True or false? -
It took Akira Haraguchi over 16 hours when she recited pi to 100,000 places last year.
Nobody else ventured a guess on my True/False questions so far. Wanna take guesses? You've got at least a 50% chance of being correct on each one!I am officially obsessed with Pi now after reading this thread.
