How do you get the number pi.

[Bill3000]

to me, that is a proof that there is no God, as a God would necessarily have to be a mathematician. it's my chosen profession, after all, so if it's good enough for me, it's good enough for God.

You sure he wouldn't be a physicist? God wouldn't create logic - he would create reality, which is independent of logic - setting parameters and the like.

 

[pboily]

God, an engineer? God forbid...

What you describe sounds like something he would ask his graduate students to tackle.

 

[Lotus49]

Mathematics can't even solve for the simple shape of a circle. I'd guess God would laugh at the 'chosen profession', just as He did the brittle iron used to make the hull of the "unsinkable" Titanic.

 

[plarq]

God made pi=4.
That's our almighty god insulting our intelligence.

 

[Irish Caesar]

God, an engineer? God forbid...

Why should that be surprising?

 

[Bill3000]

God, an engineer? God forbid...

What you describe sounds like something he would ask his graduate students to tackle.

I don't really think angels are tackled for tinkering with the fundamental constants, and the only thing left are the other two figures of the Godhead, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Is that enough?

 

[ainwood]

God made pi=4.
That's our almighty god insulting our intelligence.

People have tried to legislate the value of PI in the past...

 

[pboily]

Mathematics can't even solve for the simple shape of a circle.

I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying I have no idea what you mean by this.

 

[TheBladeRoden]

I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying I have no idea what you mean by this.

Math is not the ideal or most efficient answer for everything

 

[Bill3000]

Math is not the ideal or most efficient answer for everything

Yeah. That's what Applied Math is.

 

[pboily]

No, I meant, what does it mean to "solve for the simple shape of a circle"?

EDIT: Of course math is not ideal or most efficient answer to everything: it's mental masturbation!

 

[Bartleby]

I know that 355/113 is a good approximation for pi.
I discovered this one busy morning, by using my calculator to multiply pi by whole numbers until the answer was nearly a whole number.
Turns out a Chinese astronomer, Tsu Chung Chi, beat me to it by ~1500 years.

 

[batteryacid]

I always maintained that if God were a mathematician he would have made pi = 1

You can construct non-Euklidean spaces in which pi can be every number you want (but 0 and infinite naturally)

 

[Leifmk]

You can construct non-Euklidean spaces in which pi can be every number you want (but 0 and infinite naturally)

Not really. The number /pi is only defined as the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle in Euclidean plane geometry. It can also be defined/calculated independently of plane geometry.

 

[Kyriakos]

Many things interesting about π
I am currently reading a book about the 1+ 1/2 squared + 1/3 squared +....+1/n squared being equal in its closed form (ie in what it would amount to for n=infinite) to π squared/6

 

[Hygro]

I know that 355/113 is a good approximation for pi.
I discovered this one busy morning, by using my calculator to multiply pi by whole numbers until the answer was nearly a whole number.
Turns out a Chinese astronomer, Tsu Chung Chi, beat me to it by ~1500 years.

That was a busy morning?

 

[Bartleby]

The joys of academic research.

 

[classical_hero]

This song truly represents them. White and Nerdy

 

[thetrooper]

Since all questions are answered (he he... at least thoroughly confused), I'll just post a phrase that hopefully will be of help when you are trying to remember decimals of pi. And yes, I have posted this before.

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That should be far enough for any practical purpose.

 

[Leifmk]

That should be far enough for any practical purpose.

Here's a much longer one:

http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikerav.htm