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Happy Pi Day Doctor Q!
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You think that’s late? You’ve not seen one of my tackles! Usually as they come out of the dressing room after the match……
Here is an animated gif from tenor.com in memory of Steve Wilhite, who invented the GIF (graphics interchange format) file format in 1987 when he worked at early Internet service CompuServe. He died on Pi Day 2022.
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If you think that pi is 3.14159265358... then it's probably a sign that you have 10 fingers.
There's nothing special about base 10 other than it being convenient for people with the typical number of fingers (or toes, if you count that way).
But what if you have a different number of fingers? When you count on your fingers, it's in one of these bases:
𝝅 = 11.0010010000... in base 2
𝝅 = 1.00102110122... in base 3
𝝅 = 3.02100333122... in base 4
𝝅 = 3.03232214303... in base 5
𝝅 = 3.05033005141... in base 6
𝝅 = 3.06636514320... in base 7
𝝅 = 3.11037552421... in base 8 (just don't include your thumbs)
𝝅 = 3.12418812407... in base 9
𝝅 = 3.14159265358... in base 10
𝝅 = 3.16150702865... in base 11
𝝅 = 3.184809493B9... in base 12
𝝅 = 3.1AC1049052A... in base 13
𝝅 = 3.1DA75CDA813... in base 14
𝝅 = 3.21CD1DC46C2... in base 15
𝝅 = 3.243F6A8885A... in base 16
𝝅 = 3.26FAG579ED6... in base 17
𝝅 = 3.29FDEH0G771... in base 18
𝝅 = 3.2D23982975G... in base 19
𝝅 = 3.2GCEG9GBHJ9... in base 20
I'm using A for digit 10, B for digit 11, and so on.
If you have more than 20 fingers, try counting on only one hand.
If you think that pi is 3.14159265358... then it's probably a sign that you have 10 fingers.
There's nothing special about base 10 other than it being convenient for people with the typical number of fingers (or toes, if you count that way).
But what if you have a different number of fingers? When you count on your fingers, it's in one of these bases:
𝝅 = 11.0010010000... in base 2
𝝅 = 1.00102110122... in base 3
𝝅 = 3.02100333122... in base 4
𝝅 = 3.03232214303... in base 5
𝝅 = 3.05033005141... in base 6
𝝅 = 3.06636514320... in base 7
𝝅 = 3.11037552421... in base 8 (just don't include your thumbs)
𝝅 = 3.12418812407... in base 9
𝝅 = 3.14159265358... in base 10
𝝅 = 3.16150702865... in base 11
𝝅 = 3.184809493B9... in base 12
𝝅 = 3.1AC1049052A... in base 13
𝝅 = 3.1DA75CDA813... in base 14
𝝅 = 3.21CD1DC46C2... in base 15
𝝅 = 3.243F6A8885A... in base 16
𝝅 = 3.26FAG579ED6... in base 17
𝝅 = 3.29FDEH0G771... in base 18
𝝅 = 3.2D23982975G... in base 19
𝝅 = 3.2GCEG9GBHJ9... in base 20
I'm using A for digit 10, B for digit 11, and so on.
If you have more than 20 fingers, try counting on only one hand.
In base pi, it's 1.00. Because everything should be counted in semicircles.
I think you mean 10.00, with the digit 1 in the 𝝅^1 place.
100 in base 𝝅 wouldn't make a round meal, since it's pie squared.
Once upon an ancient time, I mentioned base pi in this thread.
You're right. I slipped a piecemeal point.
I guess we're going round in circles.
It's not really a circle, only an approximation using a series of 4 cubic splines.
For example, in the "Joker lantern" avatar I use in October, here's the PDF fragment that makes the solid orange "almost circle":
Code:
1.000 0.588 0.000 rg
370 200.0 m
370 293.803 293.803 370 200.0 370 c
106.197 370 30 293.803 30 200.0 c
30 106.197 106.197 30 200.0 30 c
293.803 30 370 106.197 370 200.0 c
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Not this year!!!! Happy Pi Day!!!!!!
(Insert Homer Simpsons Voice here -->MMMMMMMMMMMMMM PI!)
(Insert Homer Simpsons Voice here -->MMMMMMMMMMMMMM PI!)
It's Pi Day and National Potato Chip Day at the same time? Woohoo!
I'm disappointed that π gets all the glory, while 2π gets nothing.
Better than celebrating May 5th, since most of the drunk people don't even know why May 5th is a minor holiday in Mexico.
The last digit of pi is 6!
Well, perhaps I didn't phrase that correctly. What I meant to say is that the last digit of pi that's been computed so far is 6.
After 75 days of computing, storage vendor Solidigm announced that they had set a new world record by computing pi to 105 trillion decimal digits, the last of which is 6. This beats the previous record, a mere 100 trillion digits.
Well, perhaps I didn't phrase that correctly. What I meant to say is that the last digit of pi that's been computed so far is 6.
After 75 days of computing, storage vendor Solidigm announced that they had set a new world record by computing pi to 105 trillion decimal digits, the last of which is 6. This beats the previous record, a mere 100 trillion digits.
Now I have to work out what circumference we'd need in order for that level of precision to produce an error of 1mm. I have a feeling it would handily exceed the circumference of the observable universe. Probably even if that circumference were measured in Planck lengths instead of mm.