Re: pi
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Thursday, October 18, 2001, 20:09 |
|---|
On Thursday, October 18, 2001, at 12:12 , Patrick Jarrett wrote:
Gosh, I hope those mathematicians aren't *too* violent...though my closer
friends would say that I'm not much of a counterexample. <ashamed look>
There are other ways you can define/produce pi, though the sum below is
one of the "prettier" ones IMHO. Unfortunately I have almost none of my
math books on me, or I'd whip out a couple alternates. :-)
YHL
> Its something like 3 + 1/3 - 1/5 + 1/7 - 1/9.... or something along those
> lines. Quite interesting.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Dunn" <tb0pwd1@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: pi
>
>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, D Tse wrote:
>>
>> I said this to a number of mathematicians, and they beat me severely.
>> Evidently this is a common misconception. First of all, the digits of pi
>> are not "random." They showed me the proof, and although I cannot
>> reproduce it, I was convinced.
Replies