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 Beethoven  Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgocE-JfWFI Far Out!!! Now that's what I call "Fun with Numbers". Great find, Pawly!  ID: 586905 ·  |
John McLeod VII  Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 
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The largest factorial that will fit into scientific notation with 3 digits in the exponent is 449!   BOINC WIKI ID: 587004 · |
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Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
The largest factorial that will fit into scientific notation with 3 digits in the exponent is 449! And what's this number that stretches our thread to Kingdom Come? Hmmm? ID: 587010 · |
Gavin Shaw  Send message Joined: 8 Aug 00 Posts: 1116 Credit: 1,304,337 RAC: 0 
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Here's a number for you: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089 986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502 841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652 712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748 815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330 572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912 279381830119491298336733624 Done to 512 place precision using the PowerToy Calculator. (But is it correct?) Never surrender and never give up. In the darkest hour there is always hope. ID: 587058 · |
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Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
Here's a number for you: Can I have a slice of that pie? Sorry Gavin, I'm not enough the mathematician to say yes or no. :( ID: 587061 · |
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Gavin Shaw Send message Joined: 8 Aug 00 Posts: 1116 Credit: 1,304,337 RAC: 0
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Here's a number for you: Pie is good. I especially like apple or apricot. So you can have some if you want. Just leave some for my girlfriend. :) I asked about if it was correct as I saw a reference that some calculations performed by this program are actually "wrong" or inaccurate to a certain degree. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator_%28Windows%29 and scroll to the bottom and read under the section labelled External Links. Never surrender and never give up. In the darkest hour there is always hope. ID: 587080 · |
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Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
Here's a number for you: Yes, I see. EEK! That's scary! Having now become reliant on computer calculators, we're now not sure when they're right! Good point. I think we'd have to do some googling on mathematical/university sites to see what they say the correct figure is. ;) ID: 587082 · |
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Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79
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666: Oh, really? Unread post(s) Rocky's Cafe...:-) Furthermore ... Beethoven User profile image Well, isn't that special? ;) Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. ID: 588367 · |
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Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
Ahah! (The Truth dawns on him...) Well, it just goes to show you: You can't believe everything you read. LOL I hope that wasn't too much work. Congratulations, Sarge the Disprover! Give the man a cupie doll. ID: 588421 · |
The Simonator  Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 
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Here's a number for you: Well it matches this. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. 
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Jeffrey  Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
Give the man a cupie doll. As long as it isn't a 'sippy cup'... We all know how dangerous those can be... ;)  It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .
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Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
Is there any mathematical proof the the value of Pi has an infinite number of decimal places? Heyas Chris! It seems that has been proven, sort of... ;) According to Wikipedia: Numerical value The numerical value of À truncated to 50 decimal places is: 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 See the links below and those at sequence A000796 in OEIS for more digits. While the value of pi has been computed to billions of digits, practical science and engineering will rarely require more than 10 decimal places. As an example, computing the circumference of the Earth's equator from its radius using only 10 decimal places of pi yields an error of less than 0.2 millimeters. The exact value of À has an infinite decimal expansion: its decimal expansion never ends and does not repeat, since À is an irrational number (and indeed, a transcendental number). 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. Despite much analytical work, and supercomputer calculations that have determined over 1 trillion digits of À, no simple pattern in the digits has ever been found. Digits of À are available on many web pages, and there is software for calculating À to billions of digits on any personal computer. See history of numerical approximations of À. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi ID: 588550 · |
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Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79
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[font="symbol"]p[/font] Bah Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. ID: 588555 · |
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Beethoven Send message Joined: 19 Jun 06 Posts: 15274 Credit: 8,546 RAC: 0 |
[font="symbol"]p[/font] All they seem to have in Windows character sets is ÃŽÂ , a Plain Jane stripped-down version of the traditional. ID: 588558 · |
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