What is the Last Digit of PI?
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From: Leroy Quet on 4 Feb 2010 13:48 Datesfat Chicks wrote: > I have a friend who claims that the last digit of PI is "7". Is this > correct? > > Thanks, Datesfat This sounds more like a philosophical question than a math question, since there is NO "last" digit of pi. Maybe, having fun here, the last digit of pi is a "number" in a superposition of states (borrowing an idea from quantum physics). It is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, AND 9, all simultaneously. But since that number doesn't exist, it is NONE of the ten digits. Or maybe... Still, you can assign a value to the "nonexistent". Call the last digit of pi "upsilon". (I see that someone up-thread called such a number mu, if I understand their post correctly.) Maybe thinking about upsilon mathematically does NOT lead to logical contradictions. Remember, that the squareroot of -1 was once considered to be nonexistent, but it was given the variable name "i" anyway. And dealing with i is mathematically consistent, at least as far as we know. So, maybe upsilon is a valid mathematical concept! :) Thanks, Leroy Quet
From: Bart Goddard on 4 Feb 2010 13:56 Dann Corbit <dcorbit(a)connx.com> wrote in news:MPG.25d4ae5081d433ed9896c4 @news.eternal-september.org: > In article <5bednWVfOfLpmfbWnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, > datesfat.chicks(a)gmail.com says... >> >> I have a friend who claims that the last digit of PI is "7". Is this >> correct? > > No. It is definitely wrong. Since pi is a transcendental number, it > has no last digit. Actually it's 1, if you write it in base-pi. For another viewpoint see the earth-shattering discovery here: http://www.watleyreview.com/2004/062904-3.html B. -- Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
From: Axel Vogt on 4 Feb 2010 14:27 Datesfat Chicks wrote: > I have a friend who claims that the last digit of PI is "7". Is this > correct? Sure. At least for those, who take '47' as the ultimate answer.
From: harry on 4 Feb 2010 14:32 "Datesfat Chicks" <datesfat.chicks(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:5bednWVfOfLpmfbWnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >I have a friend who claims that the last digit of PI is "7". Is this >correct? > > Thanks, Datesfat either 1 or 0 in Binary
From: Mensanator on 4 Feb 2010 14:41
On Feb 4, 1:27 pm, Axel Vogt <&nore...(a)axelvogt.de> wrote: > Datesfat Chicks wrote: > > I have a friend who claims that the last digit of PI is "7". Is this > > correct? > > Sure. At least for those, who take '47' as the ultimate answer. Did you mean '42'? |