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Reply 40

SasunD

Saagar

you can't...... :smile:

actually its like to the nearest meter but hey...what you gonna do.

Reply 41

technik

SasunD

yeah well....what happens when you don't have a computer handy and you want to calculate the volume of the universe to within a millimeter. huh?

i'll mutter "im off to the chippy"

Reply 42

Saagar

not much as you probably can't even caluculate it to that

Reply 43

Tyler Durden

Golden Maverick

The entire works of shakespeare are written in the number pi (and every other irrational) if you assign letters to numbers.

Sorry? How do you mean?

Reply 44

Saagar

yes i didn't get myself either :smile:

Reply 45

alkaeda

5 ppl in the student forum invented pie? I sense something not write here :/

Reply 46

Tyler Durden

alkaeda

5 ppl in the student forum invented pie? I sense something not write here :/

Hehe - so do I! :tongue:

Reply 47

SsEe

I used to be able to recite up to 150 but I've forgotten. I know the first 100 really well and can reel them off fluently. And I vaguely remember the next few:

3.1415926535897932384626433832795
02884197169399375105820974944592
30781640628620899862803482534211
70679 (8214808...)

I know I could google it but I didn't. And yes. I am a nerd. :smile:

Reply 48

SasunD

So I have met my match then...

Reply 49

*Shining-Light*

I've never really tried to learn it, but i remember someone one telling me it was the number of letters in each word in "may I have a large container of coffee, thank you". xx

Reply 50

Willa

off by complete heart (somebody check if i'm right...i cant remember):

3.141592653589793238464227950

Reply 51

Alphie

Met a guy once who's 'party trick' was to recite Pi to 51 places :eek:

...didn't see him again.

Reply 52

smallthoms

I only know as far as 3.142.

Random bit of info: Melissa Joan Hart who played Sabrina the Teenage Witch can recite to a few hundred places, I can't remember exactly how many.

Reply 53

jpowell

3.14159 is all I know. I do a degree in maths, but why the hell would anyone need to know it to more accuracy than that?

In most cases it is good enough to assume pi is 3.

Reply 54

m:)ckel

AlRP

Met a guy once who's 'party trick' was to recite Pi to 51 places :eek:

...didn't see him again.

It's easy to do, I've done it before in fact- all you do is remember the first 6 or so decimal places, and then just recite some random crap, remembering to spread the numbers out to a fair degree.....no-one else will know, so they'll believe you (unless there's some wacko there that actually knows pi to more than 20 digits....then you're screwed)