08-03-2007
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 Doing the Impossible    | Finding Pi OK, I was looking up something entirly unrelated on the internet and came across a little gem. It is a page dedicated to unusual formulas that approximate Pi. Puzzle 50.- “The best approximation to pi with primes” One of the examples is only Palindrome numbers (same forward and backward) 1.09999901 x 1.19999911 x 1.39999931 x 1.69999961 = 3.141592573 Then it has a whole section for formulas that use only prime numbers to approximate Pi. Here is an example. 3+(5*2216117)/(3*53*577*853) = 3.14159265358979316 I thought some of the guys here would get a kick out of this, I did. Bill ---------------- aka TheBigDog - Hypography Full Freaking Moderator   Become a Hypography sponsor! The truth is incontravertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end there it is. - Winston Churchill TheBigDog's recommended reading: The Science of Success - Charles G. Koch A neutron goes into a bar and asks the bartender, "How much for a beer?" The bartender replies, "For you, no charge." | |
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08-06-2007
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 Resident Diabolist  | Re: Finding Pi You really like those pies? During the year I passed in Australia I ate them exactly once in the first week and then never again! Actually to say the truth I tried in central Australia a Kangaroo-pie and that one was at least eatable... ---------------- Administrator A COUNTRY WITHOUT AN ARMY IS LIKE A FISH WITHOUT A BIKE!!! I don't believe in god, but I do believe in what others call utopies. | |
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