Don't know about you, but I sometimes get really really sick of pi, so last week
I enlisted the help of some friends at a taekwondo club where I train to
Help me with some anger management
Have a look
Okay, so that was fun
I'm now working on an extended version in which will kill [70,000] digits and so the way
we do it is we videotape one cake per
Digits or from zero to a ninth of ten different kicks and what I'll do is
I'll write a program that sticks these film segments together in the right order
You know 70,000 [or] 100,000 of them, and then I'll have a video that I'll use every time you know they'll calculate another
Trillion digits of Pi or somebody recites like a hundred thousand digits of pi from memory and some fool claims that
This is somehow mathematically significant. Which it isn't it's completely pointless as far as mathematics is concerned
It's a lot of fun
But it's pointless of course since pi is an irrational number it has an infintie of [non] [repeating] tail of decimals
So no matter how many decimals I kill there will always be infinitely more to kill so I mean
Pi is immortal so this is really quite innocent what I'm doing here. I'm not really killing anybody
Still it's a lot [of] fun, and you know it [really] helps me overcome this Anger all right?
Now I actually learn something in this whole thing that I didn't know before
So zero appears in PI for the first time as the 33rd decimal
pretty good
people already knew about
The first 33 decimals in 1600 so as far as I'm concerned
We could really have stopped calculating at that point in time
You know 33 digit solid is okay and I would go up to a hundred digits, but after that it's enough seriously
What are all the digits of pi good for well some people have suggested?
we should use them to communicate with aliens. you broadcast three one four one five and
If they understand they continue the equation, right?
Where'd you get that ideas son? biting into this.
So you probably know what I think about this idea and what my three legged alien friend here thinks about this idea
But I'd be interested in what you think about the idea [of] communicating with aliens using the decimal expansion of [Pi]
Everybody claims. They really care about those digits, but seriously nobody does heres proof
That's the opening sequence of the movie Pi it's all about Pi [its] movie called Pi
Well, did you notice anything?
well if you have a really really close looked as
Thousands here, and there's many more thousands coming up. It's only really accurate up to this point
The rest is just made up somebody just set their typewriter and type widely now here is
Just a screenshot from never being kissed it's the Mathletes
celebrating Pi day
What can I say? here's one that's very very famous
It's the life of Pi, and I'm just going [to] play this the scene and you see where they can spot the mistake
he's really doing this
[by] [the] [end] of that day, I was pi patel, a school legend
So did you spot the mistake? No? We're was pretty obvious
So this is the last thing we [see] here
[there's] like obviously thousands of digits of Pi on on the blackboards here and the last one he writes
... that's definitely in Pi
And we can actually look it up where it occurs for the first time
So there's a really nifty tool on the web
Which is the pi search page, and you just type in a string of numbers?
And it tells you the first time that comes up if it knows it
so just type in the last five year four four one seven zero and it tells us that occurs as the
three thousand seven hundred and eighty seventh digit after the decimal point
Okay, so [he's] definitely memorized this thing very well Pi patel main character of the movie
however when you have a look at the book that the teacher holds and confirms that everything is correct it's
all in French
So if you really really close look it says there
That what he's looking at is a table of the digits of PI up to the 2000s digit
Now what a mistake, and you [didn't] spot it
Anyway this this pi search page is actually good one to remember next time you want to
you know count the number of digits on your t-shirt because
The best way to do it is actually this curve take the last couple of digits
In this case, it's nine nine. Nine. Nine nine
Nine six nines type them into the search engine and ask when does this show up now?
Is this a Joke nine? Nine. Nine. Nine nine, nine, nine... (it isn't!)
and that brings us to the main use of of the digit of PI which is
Pi T-shirts
But actually when I think about it
I've got a lot of [Pi] t-shirts and the best ones actually don't have anything to do with the digits of Pi have a look
After all this pie. I'm ready to kill a couple more digits
But this time I'm going to do it in style with my brand new pie black belt
Have a look at this marvelous
three meters and 14 [centimetres] exactly
[lots] lots of digits of Pi of course
How many digits do you think on this black belt and how many times do you [think] this black belt fits around me?
Leave a guess in the comments and
happy Pi Day and
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