Spock demanding the final digit of Pi, from an episode of Star Trek. 5 fun facts about Pi from NPR’s Math Guy, Keith Devlin of Stanford University. From, Pi to 1 million digits, just in case you were curious. From Mental Floss, a remembrance of the time Indiana’s state legislature was nearly duped into changing the value of Pi. If these facts have gotten you excited, here are some additional reads you may find of interest: The first 39 digits past the decimal are all you need to accurately calculate the spherical value of the universe. 'The calculation took 108 days and nine hours' using a supercomputer, the Graubuenden University of Applied Sciences said in a statement. There are no occurances of the sequence 123456 in the first million digits but of the eight 12345s three are. In recent years we’ve been able to calculate Pi to over a trillion digits. Swiss researchers said Monday they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude, hitting 62.8 trillion figures using a supercomputer. The mathematician Archimedes approximated this ratio to be 22/7. A circle is always a little more than 3 times its width around. If you slept through your four years of high school math (it’s understandable), here’s a brush-up on why Pi is so important. On Saturday morning at 9.30am, our high-performance computer successfully completed the Pi calculation to exactly 62,831,853,071,796 digits precision. Think of it as a Buzz Lightyear of numbers, though perhaps a little less invested in space lasers and more concerned with the area of a circle. Pi is an irrational number, which means its digits continue on ad infinitum. What makes today’s instance of Pi Day amusingly exceptional is the further coincidence that Pi’s next two digits match the year - 3.1415. Calculating or finding as many digits of it as possible is a project that mathematicians, scientists and engineers around the world have worked on for thousands of years, myself included. Nerds rejoice - it’s Pi (π) Day! March 14, long extolled as the day immediately following this author’s birthday, is also cherished among mathletes, mathematicians, and followers of the I F’ing Love Science Facebook page alike, due to the coincidental fact that 3.14 is both this particular date written in shorthand and the first three digits of Pi. Maths debate Swiss researchers have calculated pi to 62.8 trillion digits and it’s both fascinating and useless With only ten decimal places of the mathematical constant, we could. The results were in and it was a new record: We’d calculated the most digits of ever 100 trillion to be exact.
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