just wondering for fun?
2007-11-06 08:59:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
you can download a program called pifast (or others) that will let you calculate it out to millions of digits.
2007-11-06 09:02:41 · answer #1 · answered by czekoskwigel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The digits of pi continue forever, with no repeating pattern. So it is impossible to give an exact numerical value, other than to simply call it "pi".
If your intention was to ask about what pi means, then the earlier poster who said it is equal to the ratio of the circumference of a circle divided by the diameter gave the answer you were looking for.
2007-11-06 09:08:26 · answer #2 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pi or π is one of the most important mathematical constants, approximately equal to 3.14159, and represents the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry. The number also represents the ratio of a circle's area to the square of its radius, and appears in many other formulas from mathematics and science. Pi is an irrational number, which means that its decimal expansion 3.1415926535897932... never ends or repeats.
2007-11-06 09:09:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
4(1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 ....)
Just sum up all the infinite terms and that's pi.
2007-11-06 09:05:56 · answer #4 · answered by Edgar Greenberg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You want a fun night in? Have a few drinks (or whatevers) and watch the movie. Trust me.
btw 22/7 is a guide, there's another fraction that's larger that's more accurate, but the point is true accuracy will always elude us. Weird, huh?
Cheers.
2007-11-06 09:05:31 · answer #5 · answered by Abyss Child X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pi cannot be expressed exactly but it is very close to (22/7)
2007-11-06 09:04:02 · answer #6 · answered by Stoic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pi is irrational so it has an infinite amount of digits that don't have any repeating pattern.
The first million digits are on this website
http://www.piday.org/million.php
2007-11-06 09:05:54 · answer #7 · answered by ss89 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
π is a magical number, so magical that very few even know where it is on the keyboard.
π is in this simple formula where the natural exponent e and the imaginary number i come together into this formula (as seen on the Simpson) which is easy to solve.
e^(π * i) = -1
2007-11-06 09:08:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
3.
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thats just the first one thousand.
2007-11-06 09:04:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly, it's the ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter.
It's an irrational number so you can never express it exactly.
Approximately it's 3.14
2007-11-06 09:02:31 · answer #10 · answered by Jeƒƒ Lebowski 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋