2007-01-27 23:39:45 · 33 answers · asked by Nathaniel Wolfgang Amadeus 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
It's like the mother-in-law - it never stops!
2007-01-28 00:41:49 · answer #1 · answered by wunceinawhile 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In July 1997, Yasumasa Kanada and colleagues at the University of Tokyo Computer Centre announced that they had calculated pi to 51,539,600,000 decimal places. Actually, the number was calculated twice, by two different machines using different software, and the results compared as a check on accuracy. It took one machine 29 hours and the other 37.
Pi to many, many digits can be downloaded from a number of Web sites, at Kanada’s own (www.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) to 4,200,000,000 decimal digits. Fewer digits but more accessible is Simon Fraser University’s: www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/borwein/paper/html/local/billdigits.html.
2007-01-27 23:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I saw a documentary on channel 5 called "the boy with the incredible brain" It was about an English boy who was amazing at maths and a few other things. Anyway he memorised pi to 22500 decimal places and could of gone further but I think he got bored! I'm sure this is in the Guinness book of records if you want to look. According to him it is infinite.
2007-01-28 09:31:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mathematical constant π is an irrational real number, approximately equal to 3.14159, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
The exact value of π has an infinite decimal expansion: its decimal expansion never ends and does not repeat, since π is an irrational number and a transcendental number. This infinite sequence of digits has fascinated mathematicians and laymen alike, and much effort over the last few centuries has been put into computing more digits and investigating the number's properties. Despite much analytical work, and supercomputer calculations that have determined over 1 trillion digits of π, no simple pattern in the digits has ever been found.
The numerical value of π truncated to 50 decimal places is:
3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510
You can check out more sites by just googling the keyword Pi.
2007-01-28 00:50:13 · answer #4 · answered by Preety 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You do own a computer, right? You aren't just asking someone else to transcribe your questions while you lie in an iron lung are you? Because google is a site that will answer pretty much any thing. I suggest you try it and use this space for something more witty or something you cannot find elsewhere.. ugh
For the record, pi has no end.. I've known this since grade 9.... Then again, maybe you aren't that old..
2007-01-28 05:46:01 · answer #5 · answered by Neo Tarantula 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
pi=4 * (1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 -1/11+1/13...)
it is believed to be an irrational number.
2007-01-29 17:21:03 · answer #6 · answered by J C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An infinite number. Pi never stops
2007-01-28 20:59:35 · answer #7 · answered by mr_maths_man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pi is infinite. It's an irrational decimal that goes on forever. No-one has found any repeating patterns yet, and it is thought they never will.
2007-01-28 03:19:08 · answer #8 · answered by Elaine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infinely Many, Pi is an irrational number
2007-01-28 02:23:50 · answer #9 · answered by kingpaulii 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me pi goes up to the number of decimal place till where i can remember i.e 9 digits.
3.141592654
3 - May
1 - I
4 - Have
1 - A
5 - Large
9 - Container
2 - Of
6 - Coffee
5 - Right
4 - Here
;) lolzzzz
2007-01-28 00:49:13 · answer #10 · answered by Illusion 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pi has an infinite number os decimal places
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2007-01-28 02:57:50 · answer #11 · answered by SAMUEL D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋