Thursday, 6 November 2008
Ludolph's number by any other name
would be circular constant, Archimedes' constant, or, of course: π
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Pi is irrational
Because π is an irrational number, its decimal expansion never ends and does not repeat. This infinite sequence of digits has fascinated mathematicians and laymen alike, and much effort over the last few centuries has been put into computing more digits and investigating the number's properties.[15] Despite much analytical work, and supercomputer calculations that have determined over 1 trillion digits of π, no simple pattern in the digits has ever been foun
Monday, 3 November 2008
Sunday, 2 November 2008
Pi to Fifty
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
Number Distribution
0: 2
1: 5
2: 5
3: 8
4: 4
5: 5
6: 4
7: 4
8: 5
9: 8