Happy Pi day

[the-pi-guy]

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
  58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
  82148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128
  48111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
  44288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091
  45648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
  72458700660631558817488152092096282925409171536436
  78925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094
  33057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548
  07446237996274956735188575272489122793818301194912
  98336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798
  60943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132
  00056812714526356082778577134275778960917363717872
  14684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235
  42019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960
  51870721134999999837297804995105973173281609631859
  50244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881
  71010003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303
  59825349042875546873115956286388235378759375195778
  18577805321712268066130019278766111959092164201989

All that is asked of us, is that we memorize a few digits on this remarkable day.  

[Legend]

3.1415926535897932384626433

That's what I got off the top of my head. A decade ago on Pi day I memorized a lot of it but that's all that's stuck with me.

[the-pi-guy]

At one point I was working on memorizing digits.  Got to about 160, and that was about the time when I created an account on VGC.  Wasnt sure what to call myself.  And here I am.  

Only remember about the same number .

[darkknightkryta]

What do you know, it is the 14th.

[Legend]

What do you know, it is the 14th.

Of MARCH!!!

I'm baking homemade pie right now. I carved Pi on it cause I'm a rebel.

[Xevross]

I only ever bother to know the first 4 digits of Pi. I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I've actually needed to remember the number that accurately anyway. Pi day is my mum's birthday, which is much more important!

[the-pi-guy]

I only ever bother to know the first 4 digits of Pi. I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I've actually needed to remember the number that accurately anyway. Pi day is my mum's birthday, which is much more important!

With only 50 digits, you can get the circumference of the entire universe with fantastic accuracy.

[darkknightkryta]

With only 50 digits, you can get the circumference of the entire universe with fantastic accuracy.

But the universe isn't a circle...

[the-pi-guy]

But the universe isn't a circle...

"The observable universe is a spherical region of the Universe comprising all matter that can be observed from Earth at the present time"

Spheres have circumference too.

[Legend]

I only ever bother to know the first 4 digits of Pi. I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I've actually needed to remember the number that accurately anyway. Pi day is my mum's birthday, which is much more important!

With only 50 digits, you can get the circumference of the entire universe with fantastic accuracy.

Yeah computers treat Pi as 3.141593 and even in double precision it's defined as just 3.14159265358979. You really don't need that many digits.

[Xevross]

Yeah computers treat Pi as 3.141593 and even in double precision it's defined as just 3.14159265358979. You really don't need that many digits.

Yeah I just use whatever my calculator/ computer thinks Pi is. It doesn't matter.

[Legend]

[darkknightkryta]

"The observable universe is a spherical region of the Universe comprising all matter that can be observed from Earth at the present time"

Spheres have circumference too.

This hasn't been verified XD

[Legend]

This hasn't been verified XD

You're thinking of if the universe is curved, right?

Pi is talking about just the observable bubble that by definition would be a sphere/almost sphere.

[darkknightkryta]

You're thinking of if the universe is curved, right?

Pi is talking about just the observable bubble that by definition would be a sphere/almost sphere.

Scientists don't actually know what the shape is, this includes the visible portion.  They just have assumptions of what it can be based on math.  At least that's what I gather from Wikipedia when I went to verify my comments.