Dude....Pisces wrote:25.
You're halfway to fifty! KF
Bleh. I never liked that approximation for Pi. Folks don't have to remember it all the way out to 3.14159265358979 or anything, just 3.14 will do. But 22/7 is an abomination.Sonic# wrote:How about this, phyco... you're about 7 times an approximation for pi. (22/7)
Ack! Don't bring calculus into this mess! Especially integrals. That's all I've been doing in class as of late (or heck all of calc 2 is integrals really... brain hurtage).Kizyr wrote:int(from -1 to 1) of [(1-x^2)^-0.5]dx
Wowza, twenty-one. I always forget how high the drinking age is in the U.S. It doesn't make much sense to me, but I guess I'm used to Canada's 18/19. Still...21 seems like a high age.Sonic# wrote:
And I may as well add... I'm 21 now. I've had a few alcoholic drinks in restaurants, but so far I haven't been particularly impressed. The best was some Italian Ice... but that just made me cringe.
If the Bible says pi is 3, that's good enough for me.Sonic# wrote:Well, I agree, 22/7 isn't clean. But the Greeks used it to avoid the dirty little secret of numbers inexpressible by ratios, so... it has its place.
Ah, I do like the integral you give. For non-calculation, there's e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0, Euler's toy. There's also the power series expansions that use it, though they're far too unwieldy (and the integral expresses that far more concisely).
Bah! I still don't get that bit.Sonic# wrote:Ah, I do like the integral you give. For non-calculation, there's e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0, Euler's toy. There's also the power series expansions that use it, though they're far too unwieldy (and the integral expresses that far more concisely).
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