Pi Contest in School (3.14159...)

[Ipquarx]

Pi is exactly 3.

Actually my fine sir Pi is exactly C/d

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[Butler]

This thread is not about how much of pi you can remember.

[Wheatley]

π is an irrational number so basically trying to memorize it past 3.14 is irrational

[Flamecannon]

so who wants to sing the song~

[SeventhSandwich]

Wow, what a completely useless competition. Instead of wasting money on making some contest about memorizing the closest approximation of Pi, why not fund a school academic decathlon team or a mock trial team? Or really anything that isn't just hapless memorization made useless to anyone who owns a graphing calculator...

[Flamecannon]

i'm not sure a friendly number contest really has a "high budget"

[pecon98]

graphing calculator...

scientific calculator*

Much cheaper, and supports pi. Of course either works, it's just a better example.

[SeventhSandwich]

i'm not sure a friendly number contest really has a "high budget"

He said there was a monetary prize.

Also, I'm assuming that the contest is run by teachers. The teachers are on salary, which means if they dedicate 3 days to preparing for this contest, that's 10% of the teacher's monthly salary + whatever prize they're offering.

[SeventhSandwich]

scientific calculator*

Much cheaper, and supports pi. Of course either works, it's just a better example.

A lot of scientific calculators represent Pi as an approximation instead of an irrational number. If you punch in (π*5) and it displays anything other than 5π, it's representing the number as an approximation.

[Fredulus]

A lot of scientific calculators represent Pi as an approximation instead of an irrational number. If you punch in (π*5) and it displays anything other than 5π, it's representing the number as an approximation.

memorizing 5000 digits of pi would still be an approximation... your point?

[Anti-Block]

there is a inversely proportional relationship between the digits of pi you memorize and the number of friends you have

[SiliconCactus]

hey man i have no friends and i only memorized 3.1415

[pecon98]

A lot of scientific calculators represent Pi as an approximation instead of an irrational number. If you punch in (π*5) and it displays anything other than 5π, it's representing the number as an approximation.

A graphing calculator is also approximating, just it's likely going to be a more accurate approximation than the scientific calculator.

[Gojira]

Pi is exactly 3.

* Gojira gasps

[SeventhSandwich]

memorizing 5000 digits of pi would still be an approximation... your point?

When did I say that having a lot of digits prevents a number from being an approximation?