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The first time I saw this as a young math nerd, I remember being so indignant when the little man said π was equal to: 3.141592653589747… Rather than:
by evincarofautumn 11y ago
The first time I saw this as a young math nerd, I remember being so indignant when the little man said π was equal to:
3.141592653589747…
Rather than:
3.141592653589793…
Didn’t they fact-check anything? :) Of course, the voice actor probably just got it wrong. And this came out around the same time as Rocky and Bullwinkle—it’s not as if anyone noticed or cared at the time that Boris and Natasha don’t sound anything like Russians…
- tennysonmach 11y agoIf you Google 3.141592653589793 then you'll find it cited as π in plenty of places. I wonder what the cause of the discrepancy is?
- grapeshot 11y agoLooks like it's the result of taking exactly 19 terms of a certain Taylor series expansion for π.
- DrScump 11y agoDid you account for inflation?