What is the Last Digit of PI?
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From: christian.bau on 5 Feb 2010 17:17 On Feb 4, 5:31 pm, "Datesfat Chicks" <datesfat.chi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have a friend who claims that the last digit of PI is "7". Is this > correct? > > Thanks, Datesfat He is wrong. The digits of Pi are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. So clearly the last digit of Pi is 9.
From: master1729 on 6 Feb 2010 04:21 Leroy Quet wrote : > > > 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.) no , you misunderstood. mu has a different meaning. mu is the answer to a koan. (koan comes from zen) > 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 > > tommy1729 the master
From: master1729 on 6 Feb 2010 04:23 Jeremie wrote : > "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 > > 1 in unary ? :p tommy1729
From: master1729 on 6 Feb 2010 04:26 Gerry Myerson wrote : > In article > <1601935338.111018.1265316920272.JavaMail.root(a)gallium > .mathforum.org>, > fernando revilla <frej0002(a)ficus.pntic.mec.es> > > wrote: > > > The problem can be transformed. If R is an order > relation on E, > > then, (a R' b iff b R a) is also relation of order > on E. So, with an > > adequate reformulation, we can say that the last > digit of pi is 3. > > Indeed, according to Matthew 20:16, the last shall be > first. > So we have it on Authority that the last digit of pi > is (or shall be) 3. lol. but not before we raise the dead. > > -- > Gerry Myerson (gerry(a)maths.mq.edi.ai) (i -> u for > email)
From: master1729 on 6 Feb 2010 04:28
> "Datesfat Chicks" <datesfat.chicks(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > > I have a friend who claims that the last digit of > PI is "7". > > Is this correct? > > Tell him to find a calculator with a longer display, > then an even longer one, ... After he's done that, > ask him what is the "last digit" of 0.99999999... its clearly 9 :) |