Science
Related: About this forumHappy Pi Day/Einstein's Birthday!
Some fun pi facts: http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/07/03_pi.html
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)"46.Thirty-nine decimal places of pi suffice for computing the circumference of a circle girding the known universe with an error no greater than the radius of a hydrogen atom."
With my calculator I calculated a ratio of 37 decimals, but that's probably from digital rounding errors.
There's a german poem to memorize the first 20 digits of pi. I learned it back in school (out of curiosity) and I still know it.
lastlib
(23,286 posts)...would make anything past the 16th decimal place on a calculator suspect.
(But it's cool anyway!) Happy Pi Day! In four years, we'll have a BIG blowout! (3.14.16)
progressoid
(49,999 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Vi Hart's fantastic video from last year:
Dr. Strange
(25,923 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Credit for that response to DUer mahatmakanejeeves, in a thread keyed to Tau Day last year: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4900188&mesg_id=4900188