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I'm in a random mood, so here are random pi facts: Inscribe a circle within a square. Choose random points within the square. As the number of points approa
by sillysaurus2 13y ago
I'm in a random mood, so here are random pi facts:
Inscribe a circle within a square. Choose random points within the square. As the number of points approaches infinity, the number of points that fall within the circle divided by the total number of points, times four, is pi. http://mathfaculty.fullerton.edu/mathews//n2003/montecarlopimod.html http://mathfaculty.fullerton.edu/mathews//n2003/montecarlopi...
Memorizing something like the first 8 digits of pi is enough to calculate the circumference of the Earth to within a few inches, iirc. (My memory is bad, so it's probably 8 +/- 2 digits.)
The quadrillionth bit of pi is zero. http://www.daemonology.net/papers/ http://www.daemonology.net/papers/
And keeping in spirit with the post, here's a pi chant: http://pi.ytmnd.com/ http://pi.ytmnd.com/
- hzay 13y agoI don't think you can calculate the circumference of the Earth to within a few inches that easily because earth's topology isn't perfectly smooth. It has ups and downs all over.
- fizx 13y agoAnd is significantly bulgy around the equator due to rotation. Calling BS.
- philhippus 13y agoNot BS, take the equator as the circumference and a weighted average between sea level and the highest point on that line for the constant circular path and you'll have a measurement relative to pi.
- auctiontheory 13y agoRight. It is undefined.