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Archie_tect said:
I suspect he meant that you can describe in the decimal number system pi to an infinite number of places withour there being a repetitive sequence of digits.
In English - its a surd.
Infinitely small?
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I suspect he meant that you can describe in the decimal number system pi to an infinite number of places withour there being a repetitive sequence of digits.
In English - its a surd.
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Have the scary men gone yet?
Have the scary men gone yet?
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So how about those imaginary numbers?
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Chuffy said:<peers out from behind sofa>
Have the scary men gone yet?
....and who started all this?
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*peeks*
No Chuffy, they're still there....]
No Chuffy, they're still there....]
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I wanted an anwer that I understood. Now I know that there isn't one I'd like you all to bugger off.snorri said:....and who started all this?
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Square root of -1 always used to send my brain mushy...
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A friend of mine once tried to explain how people can appear left-handed when you reverse photos. My bafflement almost reduced him to tears.Archie_tect said:
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Chuffy. Even you could cope with a never ending pie...surely?
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Once confused a solicitor when she asked whether the car approached the junction, from the right or the left, by saying it depends which way you're looking.
I've a nasty feeling I did. (get thee behind that sofa Chuffs...)snorri said:....and who started all this?
Pi isn't an infinite number. But it can be expressed as the sum of an infinite series which gets closer and closer, the more terms you add, but never quite reaches it. The best known (and the most inefficient) is Gregory's Series:
Pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 + ......
Go on adding terms in the same manner, alternately adding and subtracting. The result will get closer and closer to pi/4. But you'll never quite get there...
I'm deeply worried about the effect that this discussion is having on the universe.
Since entropy will eventually lead to the heat death of the universe and entropy involves a reduction in the total amount of information in the universe and we are now even more confused, there has, therefore, been an increase in entropy, so the end has been brought nearer.
Therefore:
WILL YOU PLEASE STOP!!!!
Since entropy will eventually lead to the heat death of the universe and entropy involves a reduction in the total amount of information in the universe and we are now even more confused, there has, therefore, been an increase in entropy, so the end has been brought nearer.
Therefore:
WILL YOU PLEASE STOP!!!!
It was actually Pete that really started it. I am aware that this kind of discussion can give people a headache so deliberately didn't mention calculus, sets, the continuum hypothesis, transcendental numbers and all that .
But just for clarity Pi is not a surd. And strangely enough the territory we've got onto isn't actually that far from removed from whether something in the universe could literally be infinitely small.
So sorry chuffy. So very basically black holes have singularities. This is because you get large amounts of matter in one place, leading to very high gravity which increases and increases and actually warps/destroys space itself it is that powerful!
.But just for clarity Pi is not a surd. And strangely enough the territory we've got onto isn't actually that far from removed from whether something in the universe could literally be infinitely small.
So sorry chuffy. So very basically black holes have singularities. This is because you get large amounts of matter in one place, leading to very high gravity which increases and increases and actually warps/destroys space itself it is that powerful!
