What is the Last Digit of PI?
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From: Mensanator on 4 Feb 2010 14:42 On Feb 4, 12:56 pm, Bart Goddard <goddar...(a)netscape.net> wrote: > Dann Corbit <dcor...(a)connx.com> wrote in news:MPG.25d4ae5081d433ed9896c4 > @news.eternal-september.org: > > > In article <5bednWVfOfLpmfbWnZ2dnUVZ_jidn...(a)giganews.com>, > > datesfat.chi...(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 Key quote: "We don't understand" > > B. > > -- > Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
From: Dann Corbit on 4 Feb 2010 14:48 In article <ccf8e0f8-7b65-476b-a045-476c4ecdb173@ 19g2000yql.googlegroups.com>, mensanator(a)aol.com says... > > 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'? It was clearly a HHGTTG reference, but then the answer would not have been '7' for the last digit.
From: Gottfried Helms on 4 Feb 2010 15:03 Am 04.02.2010 20:32 schrieb harry: > "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 > > Well, I've a truely powerful math-software, allowing *arbitrary* precision! Let's check the last digits. Since precision is arbitrary I chose 3. My power-math-software returns : 3.14, so the answer is 4. Should be correct,... well, the software is freeware, on the other hand, so perhaps there may be some bug... <G>
From: Axel Vogt on 4 Feb 2010 15:11 Mensanator wrote: > 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'? squealer!
From: Virgil on 4 Feb 2010 15:39
In article <5bednWVfOfLpmfbWnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, "Datesfat Chicks" <datesfat.chicks(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have a friend who claims that the last digit of PI is "7". Is this > correct? > > Thanks, Datesfat That is no friend. |