What is the Last Digit of PI?
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From: Mark Murray on 7 Feb 2010 05:08 On 04/02/2010 18:48, Leroy Quet wrote: > 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.) "Mu" is a Zen thing, not a Greek letter. It "un-asks" the question. Its a way of saying that the question was invalid. M --
From: Don Stockbauer on 7 Feb 2010 06:21 On Feb 7, 4:08 am, Mark Murray <w.h.o...(a)example.com> wrote: > On 04/02/2010 18:48, Leroy Quet wrote: > > > 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.) > > "Mu" is a Zen thing, not a Greek letter. It "un-asks" the question. > > Its a way of saying that the question was invalid. Who will be the last human alive on Earth?
From: master1729 on 7 Feb 2010 07:57 > On Feb 7, 4:08 am, Mark Murray <w.h.o...(a)example.com> > wrote: > > On 04/02/2010 18:48, Leroy Quet wrote: > > > > > 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.) > > > > "Mu" is a Zen thing, not a Greek letter. It > "un-asks" the question. > > > > Its a way of saying that the question was invalid. > > Who will be the last human alive on Earth? james harris of course :) and then he will be an accepted mathematician by democracy...
From: master1729 on 7 Feb 2010 07:57 > > On Feb 7, 4:08 am, Mark Murray > <w.h.o...(a)example.com> > > wrote: > > > On 04/02/2010 18:48, Leroy Quet wrote: > > > > > > > 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.) > > > > > > "Mu" is a Zen thing, not a Greek letter. It > > "un-asks" the question. > > > > > > Its a way of saying that the question was > invalid. > > > > Who will be the last human alive on Earth? > > james harris of course :) > > and then he will be an accepted mathematician by > democracy... apart from chuck norris and elvis of course.
From: Ostap S. B. M. Bender Jr. on 8 Feb 2010 02:54
On Feb 5, 2:17 pm, "christian.bau" <christian....(a)cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > 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. > A fellow grad student used to say: There are 4 types of math problems: 1. Easy problems 2. Medium problems 3. Hard problems 4. Problems whose answer is 7/pi |