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I got to go to a math contest once. I got diarrhea

Gatsby wrote:

I had to explain lines, line segments, parallel/perpendicular lines, and angles to my sister yesterday and it wasn't as easy as I should have been :I

you didn't do what the instructions said it says only read if you enjoy mathematics

oh wait dangit

Gatsby wrote:

aqualung wrote:

Gatsby wrote:

I had to explain lines, line segments, parallel/perpendicular lines, and angles to my sister yesterday and it wasn't as easy as I should have been :I

you didn't do what the instructions said it says only read if you enjoy mathematics

oh wait dangit

Yeah, funny story

Accidentally clicked here instead of some other thread and made a post thinking it was something else, so I edited it to be relevant

the adventures in the shoes of mr gatsby

wonderful

yoshi-fan wrote:

MathMaster101 wrote:

yoshi-fan wrote:

I memorized 300 digits of pi. I am hoping some day we will have a pi memorizing contest. 

The digits of pi repeat continuesly (if that's how you spell it) and there are only 6 digits to it that repeat. I used a method my dad taught me and i found that pi was equal to 142857142857 etc.

As surprising as it seems, the digits of pi do not repeat. There are several websites that share 100,000 to 1,000,000 digits of pi. 

yoshi-fan is right, pi is completely unpredictable. And continuously is spelled "continuously"       I only memorized 20 digits, but I probably forget them now 

imnotbob wrote:

My mom found something about the 9 times table.

9 18 27 36 45
90 81 72  63 54


See? All you do is flip the numbers.

Everyone knows that 

RedRocker227 wrote:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899 is all I know at the moment 

What's that

fungirl123 wrote:

RedRocker227 wrote:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899 is all I know at the moment 

What's that

Whoops, I forgot to actually say what it was 
The first 72 (I think) digits of pi.

I'm in top set, but only just. I'm not sure how I got in the top set of maths and it's the flukiest fluke ever. When the next test comes around, I'll be in set 2.
But seriously, I do prefer English. When I was younger, my year 1 teacher said to my mum that I shouldn't borrow reading books because 'What's the point? He'll never learn to read.'
Six years down the road, I've won a national competition. 
EDIT: I've made it sound like this is an English topic, haven't I.

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RedRocker227 wrote:

imnotbob wrote:

My mom found something about the 9 times table.

9 18 27 36 45
90 81 72  63 54


See? All you do is flip the numbers.

Everyone knows that 

I didn't. 

yoshi-fan wrote:

plb36 wrote:

yoshi-fan wrote:

As surprising as it seems, the digits of pi do not repeat. There are several websites that share 100,000 to 1,000,000 digits of pi. 

yoshi-fan is right, pi is completely unpredictable. And continuously is spelled "continuously"       I only memorized 20 digits, but I probably forget them now 

I had 404 digits memorized once, but I memorized about 100 of them in one morning, so I quickly forgot them.

That's like me. I used to know something like 150 digits, and I used to recite them whenever I got bored 
Then I went through a phase when I sort of didn't care about anything, and when I finally got back to normal, I'd forgotten most of them 

plb36 wrote:

yoshi-fan is right, pi is completely unpredictable. And continuously is spelled "continuously"       I only memorized 20 digits, but I probably forget them now 

Well, there are sequences that find pi to an every increasing accuracy, so I wouldn't say pi is completely unpredictable.

RedRocker227 wrote:

MoreGamesNow wrote:

plb36 wrote:

yoshi-fan is right, pi is completely unpredictable. And continuously is spelled "continuously"       I only memorized 20 digits, but I probably forget them now 

Well, there are sequences that find pi to an every increasing accuracy, so I wouldn't say pi is completely unpredictable.

It is completely unpredictable. It's a transcendental and irrational number, so there's no pattern whatsoever.

I know it doesn't follow a pattern, but running certain sequences gets you closer and closer to the "exact" pi.

plb36 wrote:

MoreGamesNow wrote:

RedRocker227 wrote:

It is completely unpredictable. It's a transcendental and irrational number, so there's no pattern whatsoever.

I know it doesn't follow a pattern, but running certain sequences gets you closer and closer to the "exact" pi.

Somewhat true. Like 22/7 isn't exactly pi but it's close.

I meant sequences like:

PI = (2/1 * 2/3 * 4/3 * 4/5 * 6/5 * 6/7 * ... )x2