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π
You likely already know what Pi is.
The number of times the diameter of a circle will wrap around it, a number used to measure the circle's approximate circumference.
3.14 is the widely known decimal approximation, or 22 divided by 7.
Pi is also the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced just like your favorite dessert. In the Greek numeric system, it equals 80.
In mathematics, Pi is known as one of the most famous irrational and imaginary numbers, a decimal that neither terminates or repeats despite hundreds and hundreds of digits having been found and recorded.
Actually, 22/7 is inaccurate to farther decimals. 355/113 is the next most accurate approximation, and 103993/33102, while long and somewhat absurd, is also the next best. Pi is a complex algorithm that has took many years to approximate farther than the tenth digit. With today's technology, it's been accurately approximated to the trillionth digit with no end in sight.
Some people have various reasons to remember this well known number, ranging from boredom to obsession, with (according to Wikipedia) the greatest number known and recited being something like 30 million places.
Most normal people simply consider the idea absurd.
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Just for interest's sake, I was searching pi on the internet (I have to check my facts before I write something, too. o.o;) and I found a quite amusing little site.
A Pi Searcher.
You can search for various numbers within the first two million digits, like your birthday, important dates, and anything else you might care to find. Just a random thing to do for boredom's sake.
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Personally, I have a particular affinity to Pi for no reason other than I saw it every day of my freshman and sophomore school year on a poster in one of the school hallways. And so, I have become (according to one of my teachers) "one of those people."
Therefore, available for your viewing pleasure, my current knowledge of Pi, spaced in the increments by which I gradually memorized it.
3.141 59 26 535 89 79 323 84 626 433 832 7950 2884 197 169 3993 7510 5820 97 4944...
You likely already know what Pi is.
The number of times the diameter of a circle will wrap around it, a number used to measure the circle's approximate circumference.
3.14 is the widely known decimal approximation, or 22 divided by 7.
Pi is also the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced just like your favorite dessert. In the Greek numeric system, it equals 80.
In mathematics, Pi is known as one of the most famous irrational and imaginary numbers, a decimal that neither terminates or repeats despite hundreds and hundreds of digits having been found and recorded.
Actually, 22/7 is inaccurate to farther decimals. 355/113 is the next most accurate approximation, and 103993/33102, while long and somewhat absurd, is also the next best. Pi is a complex algorithm that has took many years to approximate farther than the tenth digit. With today's technology, it's been accurately approximated to the trillionth digit with no end in sight.
Some people have various reasons to remember this well known number, ranging from boredom to obsession, with (according to Wikipedia) the greatest number known and recited being something like 30 million places.
Most normal people simply consider the idea absurd.
---
Just for interest's sake, I was searching pi on the internet (I have to check my facts before I write something, too. o.o;) and I found a quite amusing little site.
A Pi Searcher.
You can search for various numbers within the first two million digits, like your birthday, important dates, and anything else you might care to find. Just a random thing to do for boredom's sake.
---
Personally, I have a particular affinity to Pi for no reason other than I saw it every day of my freshman and sophomore school year on a poster in one of the school hallways. And so, I have become (according to one of my teachers) "one of those people."
Therefore, available for your viewing pleasure, my current knowledge of Pi, spaced in the increments by which I gradually memorized it.
3.141 59 26 535 89 79 323 84 626 433 832 7950 2884 197 169 3993 7510 5820 97 4944...
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