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How precisely do you know the value of pi?

Pie? Where?
4
5%
I get by with using pi = 3.
0
No votes
3.14 - like most people.
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39%
3-6 digits - it's good to be accurate.
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33%
7-15 digits - I try.
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9%
16-50 digits - I REALLY try.
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6%
51+ digits - I've spent countless hours mastering the value of pi!
7
9%
 
Total votes : 80

Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:41 am

... according to my chem lab, pi is apporximately 3.019 :P

Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:20 pm

Off the top of my head all i know is 3.14159... I guess. Eh, Good enough for me.

Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:40 pm

Thanks to such an informative thread, my knowledge of pi permenantly has 3 tacked onto the end now - 3.141592653.

Now, to learn 589.

589.
589.
589.

3.141592653589.

And I recite it to fellow pupils, obviously, I'm strange, and they feel it in the air too. They grimace, laugh at me, and generally the 'you're really strange' line of comments. What they do not know is how cool pi actually is.

3.141592653589.

*inserts into memory*

Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:24 pm

3.14159--it's easy to rhyme in nerdy chants. I used to know a lot more off the top of my head, but now it takes me a while to remember much more than that.

Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:46 pm

3.14159.

I wish I was like that one guy who knew it to 22,000 digits... that'd rock. :lol:

Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:57 pm

Either I use the Pi key, or I use 3.14, as that is all that is normally asked for on tests.

Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:34 am

Just 3.14 xD It doesn't really matter to me, calculators are always allowed on tests in my school, especially for things like that (Pi, I mean.)

Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:13 am

Back in my day we would just tell Pi that it was 3, and that was that. No arguments. Loosen the rules and what do you get? A trail of decimal places with no end in sight.

Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:40 pm

3.14 ... I don't have time to remember what my calculator comes up with lol

Plus I don't like circles

Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:13 pm

3.14159265 that is it.

We never use the pi key, I don't know why, but we just use 3.14, go to the link below to see pi to 1 million places.


http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/index1.html

Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:49 am

Pi is exactly three! :evil:

I know it as 3.14159...

Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:59 am

I know around 28 digits, since according to my maths text book, if you pronounce pi in Putonghua/ Mandarin, it sounds like a poem on a jug of wine in the mountains. xD

Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:45 am

3.142... heh. :P

Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:37 am

I know it's a number.


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And that's where my knowledge ends.

Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:57 pm

8 digits.

One of the seniors in my school's math club has 200+ digits memorized.
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