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mcminty

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  1. Student Recites 8,784 digits of Pi

    [q]Originally posted by: Micah Originally posted by: 6459978. Originally posted by: hym Originally posted by: N_O_Body Originally posted by: Micah Originally posted by: dev Yeah, it's all memory, and worthless also...who needs to know that many? All I know are two lol...3.14 Right! Why does anybody need to know all of them... chances are, they will forget about them all in a few years... There is no all of them. Pi is one of those numbers that goes on forever. Unless you were makeing course corrections to the horsehead nebula or some distant place like that, I doubt more than about four places of decimal are useful. I heard that scientists had calculated Pi to 500 million decimal places and it still hadn't terminated or repeated. No, I don't think you understand. It never will terminate or repeat, guaranteed! Not only is pi irrational (nonterminating, nonrepeating), but it is also transcendental (meaning it is not the solution to any algebraic equation). All this has been proven by rigorous mathematics. So if you had your heart set on finding the "last digit of pi", you'd better find a new goal for your life. This is ridiculous!! I accidentally said 'all'. I know that it isn't all, but 8,784 is really a lot! My point was that it is a waste of time because the kid will probably forget about them in a few years from now. Geez. [/q] The mere fact that he can remember and recite 8,000 digits of pi indicates thats its in his long-term memory. Its not like he "crammed" for the recital and will forget in a few days. [q] I heard that scientists had calculated Pi to 500 million decimal places and it still hadn't terminated or repeated.[/q] In 1999, Yasumasa Kanada and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo computed pi to a record 206 billion decimal digits. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20010901/bob9.asp 7 years on, I wonder how many more digits they have computed.
  2. NAM: Requests

    Originally posted by: Keiran Halcyon Once again.... NAM does not include lots. But, certainly, stations could be created for it and distributed independently of the NAM. (This has been done, as you have seen, for GLR, and there is in fact one pair of stations out there on the STEX for the dual-network el lines.)quote> Thanks for the answer.
  3. NAM: Requests

    I looked in the NAM contents and found it lacking an elevated rail (dual with road) - station. A station like Dentei Station For NAM Lightrail that would be elevated above the road. Stairs on either side would go down to the road. Is that something that can possibly be done?
  4. New (also) Diagonal Walls

    Urgh, double post.
  5. New (also) Diagonal Walls

    This is what I have been looking for! I'm currently downloading the v.2 Concrete Walls right now.
  6. Great City Name Ideas Advice

    In the region I am currently working on (russian theamed), I have area names. For example one area is called Blesnovat. There are cities called Blesnovat, Western Blesnovat, Eastern Blesnovat, etc. I'm not sure what to call my next area. Maybe Bykal or Chechnolev...
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