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FearOfMusic
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21 Jul 2011, 10:58 pm

Happy PI Approximation day.... posted a few minutes early but close enough! :lol:


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((12+144+20+3*(4^(1/2)))/7)+5*11 = (9^2) + 0


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21 Jul 2011, 11:37 pm

To get a meal that adds up to $6.66, the number that must add before tax is 2 times Pi. Michigan sales tax is 6%, and $6.28 times 1.06 rounds to $6.66.

Gone full circle, one finds that Michigan is just plain evil.


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22 Jul 2011, 12:39 am

it's as easy as 3.14...



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22 Jul 2011, 12:47 am

I love pi... :D



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22 Jul 2011, 1:19 am

sgrannel wrote:
To get a meal that adds up to $6.66, the number that must add before tax is 2 times Pi. Michigan sales tax is 6%, and $6.28 times 1.06 rounds to $6.66.

Gone full circle, one finds that Michigan is just plain evil.


This just made my day! :cheers:


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22 Jul 2011, 1:23 am

How is today Pi approximation day?


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22 Jul 2011, 7:19 am

22 July can be seen as 22/7 which equals 3.1428571...


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22 Jul 2011, 7:41 am

Mmmm, pie...


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22 Jul 2011, 8:27 am

SammichEater wrote:
How is today Pi approximation day?


22/7 = 3.14 ...

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22 Jul 2011, 8:39 am

1 Kings 7:23 - "He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it." -- Bible (NIV)

Thus, π = 30 / 10 = 3 (Biblical Value)

22 / 7 = 3.1428571428571428571428571428571...

355 / 113 = 3.1415929203539823008849557522124...

π = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510...

For all practical purpose (i.e., Circumnavigating the Earth by sea), the single-precision value of π = 3.141593 will suffice, and bring the global traveller back to within 100 metres of his or her point of origin.



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25 Jul 2011, 12:52 am

Someday a quantum computer will calculate Pi to the last digit.