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Questions: How does a machine count the numbers of pi?
               How did it start?
                ^ Where did pi come from?
                ^ Who or what made it?

sparks wrote:

wikipedia wrote:

π can be empirically estimated by drawing a large circle, then measuring its diameter and circumference and dividing the circumference by the diameter. Another geometry-based approach, attributed to Archimedes,[32] is to calculate the perimeter, Pn, of a regular polygon with n sides circumscribed around a circle with diameter d. Then compute the limit of a sequence as n increases to infinity:
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wikipedia also wrote:

π can also be calculated using purely mathematical methods. Due to the transcendental nature of π, there are no closed form expressions for the number in terms of algebraic numbers and functions. Formulas for calculating π using elementary arithmetic typically include series or summation notation (such as "..."), which indicates that the formula is really a formula for an infinite sequence of approximations to π. The more terms included in a calculation, the closer to π the result will get.

Most formulae used for calculating the value of π have desirable mathematical properties, but are difficult to understand without a background in trigonometry and calculus. However, some are quite simple, such as this form of the Gregory–Leibniz series:
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Huh?

xD

I'm not asking why something equals something, I'm asking what the world would be like IF pi equalled three!

I think that firstly several people would be out of a job - the ones searching for the full length of pi...

Pi would be a rational number.
And we wouldn't call it pi anymore, we'd just say '3'.

Then circles wouldn't exist.

pikachu1337 wrote:

Shadowsonics wrote:

Questions: How does a machine count the numbers of pi?
               How did it start?
                ^ Where did pi come from?
                ^ Who or what made it?

pi is 22 divided by 3.

No it isn't

Ok, one way a computer can calculate pi (it was said earlier, but I'll explain it a little more) is by alternately adding and subtracting the fraction of 4/odd number.  In other words, we start with 0 and add 4/1 (4).  Our total is 4 now.  Then we subtract 4/3 (3 is the next odd number up) and end up at 2 and 2 thirds or 8/3.  Then we add (alternating this operation, see?) 4/5 to get 52/15 or 3 and 7/15.  We repeat this process in to eternity to get more exact values of pi.

As for what would change in the world, possibly what would happen is that our perception of the world would be distorted onto the face of sphere instead of on a flat plane...basically a fish eye effect.  That's what I think at least.

pikachu1337 wrote:

Shadowsonics wrote:

Questions: How does a machine count the numbers of pi?
               How did it start?
                ^ Where did pi come from?
                ^ Who or what made it?

pi is 22 divided by 3.

About 22/7.

Last edited by hdarken (2011-10-05 23:30:16)

I did not know about pie.

So like if a circle's radius was 5. You could find the circumference by 2 x 3 x 5. 

It would be a heck of a lot easier. xD

Vurb wrote:

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

So like if a circle's radius was 5. You could find the circumference by 2 x 3 x 5. 

It would be a heck of a lot easier. xD

Either you are joking or you don't understand what 3.14 actually is. If you'd use 3 instead of Pi you wouldn't have a circle.

I know it wouldn't work.