[Tfug] Happy Pi Day everyone!

[Stephen Hooper]

On 3/25/07, Louis Taber <ltaber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try and remember this this:

Errr... following Bowie's mnemonic advice:  I can tell you that all
the digits in Pi represented in a "decimal" form are either
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, or 9; so all I need to do now is remember how to
distribute them.

Finally, if you were to that  in a  "binary" it makes my job much
simpler, as then I wouldn't have to remember but two things, instead
of a possible ten.

In either case,  please don't expect to be able to quiz me on it until
sometime next week: I am still trying to count the atoms in the
Universe to make sure that choprboy is correct.

I know that I had previously thought I was going to finish that up by
last week, but I was sick, my dog ate all the tally marks I had made,
someone didn't tell me that I didn't look under the dirty clothes
piled in my hamper, and I did have a previous commitment to find the
grain of sand in which the Buddha is located

>
>
> scale=4196
> 4*a(1)
> 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307\
> 81640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058\
> 22317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644\
> 28810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610\
> 45432664821339360726024914127372458700660631558817488152092096282925\
> 40917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572\
> 70365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885\
> 75272489122793818301194912983367336244065664308602139494639522473719\
> 07021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271\
> 45263560827785771342757789609173637178721468440901224953430146549585\
> 37105079227968925892354201995611212902196086403441815981362977477130\
> 99605187072113499999983729780499510597317328160963185950244594553469\
> 08302642522308253344685035261931188171010003137838752886587533208381\
> 42061717766914730359825349042875546873115956286388235378759375195778\
> 18577805321712268066130019278766111959092164201989380952572010654858\
> 63278865936153381827968230301952035301852968995773622599413891249721\
> 77528347913151557485724245415069595082953311686172785588907509838175\
> 46374649393192550604009277016711390098488240128583616035637076601047\
> 10181942955596198946767837449448255379774726847104047534646208046684\
> 25906949129331367702898915210475216205696602405803815019351125338243\
> 00355876402474964732639141992726042699227967823547816360093417216412\
> 19924586315030286182974555706749838505494588586926995690927210797509\
> 30295532116534498720275596023648066549911988183479775356636980742654\
> 25278625518184175746728909777727938000816470600161452491921732172147\
> 72350141441973568548161361157352552133475741849468438523323907394143\
> 33454776241686251898356948556209921922218427255025425688767179049460\
> 16534668049886272327917860857843838279679766814541009538837863609506\
> 80064225125205117392984896084128488626945604241965285022210661186306\
> 74427862203919494504712371378696095636437191728746776465757396241389\
> 08658326459958133904780275900994657640789512694683983525957098258226\
> 20522489407726719478268482601476990902640136394437455305068203496252\
> 45174939965143142980919065925093722169646151570985838741059788595977\
> 29754989301617539284681382686838689427741559918559252459539594310499\
> 72524680845987273644695848653836736222626099124608051243884390451244\
> 13654976278079771569143599770012961608944169486855584840635342207222\
> 58284886481584560285060168427394522674676788952521385225499546667278\
> 23986456596116354886230577456498035593634568174324112515076069479451\
> 09659609402522887971089314566913686722874894056010150330861792868092\
> 08747609178249385890097149096759852613655497818931297848216829989487\
> 22658804857564014270477555132379641451523746234364542858444795265867\
> 82105114135473573952311342716610213596953623144295248493718711014576\
> 54035902799344037420073105785390621983874478084784896833214457138687\
> 51943506430218453191048481005370614680674919278191197939952061419663\
> 42875444064374512371819217999839101591956181467514269123974894090718\
> 64942319615679452080951465502252316038819301420937621378559566389377\
> 87083039069792077346722182562599661501421503068038447734549202605414\
> 66592520149744285073251866600213243408819071048633173464965145390579\
> 62685610055081066587969981635747363840525714591028970641401109712062\
> 80439039759515677157700420337869936007230558763176359421873125147120\
> 53292819182618612586732157919841484882916447060957527069572209175671\
> 16722910981690915280173506712748583222871835209353965725121083579151\
> 36988209144421006751033467110314126711136990865851639831501970165151\
> 16851714376576183515565088490998985998238734552833163550764791853589\
> 32261854896321329330898570642046752590709154814165498594616371802709\
> 81994309924488957571282890592323326097299712084433573265489382391193\
> 25974636673058360414281388303203824903758985243744170291327656180937\
> 73444030707469211201913020330380197621101100449293215160842444859637\
> 66983895228684783123552658213144957685726243344189303968642624341077\
> 32269780280731891544110104468232527162010526522721116603966655730925\
> 47110557853763466820653109896526918620564769312570586356620185581007\
> 29360659876486117910453348850346113657686753249441668039626579787718\
> 55608455296541266540853061434443185867697514566140
>
> On 3/16/07, Adrian <choprboy at dakotacom.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday 15 March 2007 22:29, Bowie J. Poag wrote:
> > > I remember reading something somewhere that after the 200th digit or so,
> > > Pi becomes superfluous because at that point, you have a granularity
> > > higher than the smallest base distance in physics (1 angstrom?) ...In
> > > English, with that degree of precision, you could plot the location of
> > > every particle in the universe without overlap. It hurts my head. :) I
> > > don't recall the exact description, but it's something like that.
> > >
> >
> > Well... I suppose that all depends on your point of reference. 1 angstrom
> > is
> > 0.1nm (100picometers, 1*10^-13km), not the smallest distance by far, but
> > roughly the size of the smallest atoms.
> >
> > The earth is roughly 12756km in diameter, c=2*pi*r, making the
> > circumference
> > of the earth ~40074km. Or roughly 4*10^17 angstrom... So by my calculation
> > (for give me if I screwed up here somewhere, its late), that makes the
> > difference in circumference on the 17th place of pi roughly the diameter
> > of
> > an atom.
> >
> > Even at the size of the galaxy, 100,000 lightyears, the 31st digit of pi
> > is on
> > the order of 1 angstrom difference in circumference.
> >
> > Adrian
> >
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