Tuesday, March 14, 2006

3.141592653589793238462643...

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The date being 3.14, it's National Pi Day. Math departments and math clubs around the country are having recitation contests, pie-eating contests, curious musical performances... And this year you could celebrate it as the "300th Anniversary of Pi. The sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, p, was first used for the familiar value 3.1415… in the publication, Synopsis Palmariorium Mathesios, authored by William Jones in 1706."

The first thousand digits (thank you, Wikipedia):
3.
1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510
5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679
8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128
4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196
4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 7245870066
0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360
0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036
5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799
6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362
4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277
0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271
4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901
2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611
2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113
4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455
3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881 7101000313
7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303 5982534904
2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778 1857780532
1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 2164201989

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