Happy Pi Day (1 Viewer)

[Carrotsticks]

Though really, the celebratory period should be ~3pm today.

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679 8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196 4428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273 724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609

 

[SpiralFlex]

GROWL! 3AM CELEBRATION! SPIRAL IS ON SUGARRRR

 

[SpiralFlex]

SPAM spam spam! Still partying on pi day. At 4 AM!

 

[IamBread]

Woooo pi day!!@@!@!@!

 

[SpiralFlex]

Still celebrating pi day kekeke

 

[Georgehana]

Still celebrating pi day kekeke

Spiral, do you include sleep in your life?

 

[SpiralFlex]

Robots don't sleep nor go to school.

 

[Georgehana]

Mate, you're fucked.

 

[SpiralFlex]

Hehe my prediction from teachers is 70 ATAR.

 

[SpiralFlex]

Happy pi day all! This was worth staying up all night for the countdown. Exactly posted at 3pm. ^_^

 

[ZeeZee3]

Woops forgot about Pi day today, HAPPY PI DAY, to celebrate, I will be typing up Pi to as much decimal places i can from memory so here goes:
3.14

 

[Bored_of_HSC]

So tempted to spam this thread with as many digits of pi possible...

 

[zeebobDD]

Woops forgot about Pi day today, HAPPY PI DAY, to celebrate, I will be typing up Pi to as much decimal places i can from memory so here goes:
3.14

3.1415 YESSSSSS i can recite more numbers than zee

 

[Timske]

 

[IamBread]

3.14159265?

 

[Carrotsticks]

Try memorising the digits of pi.

It's actually really fun and it's a nice little brain exercise.

Use this song to start you off with the first 150 or so digits.

 

[AAEldar]

How many can you recite Carrot?

 

[Carrotsticks]

Enough to entertain myself for a good few minutes when I'm bored =)

 

[Carrotsticks]

An interesting fact:

The following series is also known as the Leibniz Series or Leibniz Formula:



The series is also very closely related to a problem called Gauss' Circle problem, where we want to count the number of integer co-ordinates (called 'lattice points') that lie inside or on the circle centred at the origin and with radius r.

Unfortunately, this series converges very slowly to pi, so it is not the most efficient way of computing the digits.

 

[Carrotsticks]

Pi shows its face in even the most unexpected of problems seemingly totally related to pi.

For example, suppose I have a stick of some unit length.

In front of me, I have horizontal intervals (imagine floorboards) of the same unit length.

When I throw the stick, it can either cross one of the intervals or lie in between two intervals.

The probability of it CROSSING a line is.... you guessed it!



So just by throwing sticks, I can approximate pi!

This is more commonly known as Buffon's Needle Problem.