Comments on: The Craziest Thing You’ll Ever Learn About Pi

By: Scotty

Scotty — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:47:59 +0000

2^2^sin(.135)+1 = 3.1402525241635

more accurate than pi or 22/7

By: AshMashMash

AshMashMash — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:29:23 +0000

Oh darn. So learning it to 300dp’s wasn’t sensible?

By: Thomas Stromberg

Thomas Stromberg — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:36:22 +0000

One of my favorite interview questions is: Can you tell me what number π is, in as many digits as you recall? Over the ~50 interviews I have asked it, there seems to be a distinct correlation between this answer and how well they do overall during the interview. 3.14159 appears to be the magic answer here. Someone who only knows 3.14 doesn't have a good enough memory for this job, and someone who knows more digits (especially 12+) tends to do poorly in problem-solving scenario questions. Interesting quirk, nonetheless.

BTW, you can use the HTML entity for pi with a large font size instead of a graphic. Just use & pi;

By: arthur doohan

arthur doohan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:42:18 +0000

All are wrong on the Interwebs…..

The purpose of hyper accurate calc’s of the numeric value of Pi is to investigate/check whether Pi is truly a ‘transcendental’ number.

By: Pi Accuracy at tumble*jalada

Pi Accuracy at tumble*jalada — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:27:55 +0000

[...] Apparently, dividing 22 by 7 is enough. [...]

By: Pastafaria

Pastafaria — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:38:52 +0000

Of course God plays dice.

Bitch still owes me $10.

By: asdf

asdf — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:09:36 +0000

Remind me to shoot you for that doesn't play dice comment.

Seriously, no.

By: murky

murky — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:03:44 +0000

it seems the usa is the only country (i know of) that uses the illogical date system; month-day-year

the rest of the world, including einstein's country of birth uses the easier to understand system; day-month-year, so einstein's abbreviated birthdate is 14.3

however mathemeticians have proposed a more logical dating system going from long to progressivly shorter units of time; year-month-day-hour-minute-second...etc

By: Bill in Detroit

Bill in Detroit — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:40:44 +0000

My understanding of the reason for calculating pi out to such absurd lengths is to determine whether or not it ever repeats itself. (like 1/3 does) So far, no dice … but who knows what the next trillion digits may show?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:59:20 +0000

OBAMA WINS!

By: aL

aL — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:01:20 +0000

Robert Jones is right,Einstein didn’t believe in god. He was religious but not the way everyone else is, he never believed in a higher being you dumb fucks! Don’t only read a fucking book, but try to understand what you are reading you retarded assfucks.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:29:30 +0000

Gods don’t exist.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:59:03 +0000

You’re all pricks.

By: Daniel Miessler

Daniel Miessler — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:05:53 +0000

J, I’m an atheist and I know he was too. It was a joke.

By: J

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:13:10 +0000

god doesn’t play dice, but Einstein doesn’t believe in god fool

By: paul

paul — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:14:24 +0000

its actualyl dd/mm/yyyy, the american date system is illogical and incorrect hence theres no conincidence here he was born on the 14/3

By: forex

forex — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:33:24 +0000

perfect post. great

By: ankastre

ankastre — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:29:31 +0000

soo soo muck

By: transpalet

transpalet — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:28:02 +0000

Great post.. Thank you

By: psyko

psyko — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:25:05 +0000

God doesn’t only play dice, he’s also cheating.

By: B-Dog

B-Dog — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:07:41 +0000

What are the chances a mathematician would be intrigued with pi? ;) It is pretty cool, though, to be a mathematician who is born on 3.14. However, it seems likely that many mathematicians hold such honor (100/36525 chances), I’m not really sure that it’s an amazing coincidence, but it’s pretty cool.

As to the theological debate, I can hardly see that mentioning Einstein’s religious beliefs to be an act of intolerance toward believers. If you feel that way, Brian Jones, perhaps you should reevaluate your level of tolerance toward atheists. You can have your religion, but don’t think for a second that it has been verified by anyone the same way that pi has. Also, the “humorous” remark was understood to be only that, but you can’t deny the irony of concluding an article about math with a statement about myth.

Pi rocks.

By: Dikey Geçiş Sınavı

Dikey Geçiş Sınavı — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:24:30 +0000

Great, thx alot

By: paul

paul — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:21:12 +0000

Although the argument of the precision when using pi to calculate precision in circles and spheres is accurate, that is not the only use for additional digits. The best use is to confirm the reliability of computers to high order terms of calculations, when the computer is being used for multi variable calculations the more terms the better. a serious case of this actually being a problem was the Pentium FDIV bug. Check it out on Wikipedia. Currently they use different methods of calculating pi to make sure that the produced string is identical to the accepted value. Oh and my birthday is June 26th, its a palindrome when written in either base 10 or base 5… or in base 625. At least I got that.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 05 May 2008 07:26:00 +0000

I have a hard time remembering long strings of numbers, so I just memorized the last ten digits of pi. I could explain how I’ve done this, but there isn’t enough room in this comment to do so.

By: Mgccl

Mgccl — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:04:27 +0000

How do we know god don’t play dice?