[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.