Survey posted 2003-03-11 22:03 by Henrik.

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Duh. Who thought up this quote?

Quote?

Hey, remember that time when Chickendude copied and pasted all those digits of pi? That was funny :) That's why that long message block thing is there LOL!

chemautotroph?????
AAAAAHHH!!! It's biology!!!!

Nooooooo! Not Bio!

Hey, didn't your name use to be

<h3m4u707r0|>h or something in the 13375p34|< style? Did you change your name, or get a new account? (Or am I hallucinating?)

Yeah, it used to be, but when my account had to be reactivated after 120, something was broken and it gave me the error that my account didn't exist. I had to get a new one, which was quite a bummer, I had a few programs associated with that account.

No, I didn't mean to write "quote", but poll. I guess that's what happens when I'm working on two websites and posting messages on forums during upload time :P (Why isn't there an "emoticon" for brain overload?)

I'll have to agree, pie is yummy.
Pi is > 3.14, as the 3.14_ digit is 1.
Pi is NOT useless. If there was no pi, the world would have a LOT less shirts with nerdy stuff on them. Come on, pi is the classic nerd thing!!

I agree. Such as those for the math teams.

However, your statement "would have a LOT less shirts" should be "would have a LOT FEWER shirts"

Oh, you >:(

j/k

Doesn't the > operator mean "less than" when expressed that way in the survay? If not, then I voted incorrectly.

I don't think so... PI>3.14 means PI is greater than 3.14

00ps, wrong argument (I have a cold).
Here's what it is supposed to say:

Doesn't the > operator mean "less than" when expressed that way in the survay? If SO (this is the mistake), then I voted incorrectly.

w00t! try that with any assembler kode and you'll have a great time debugging ;)

ASM dosen't have inequality/equality signs. :-?

Technically, no, but you can still use them. I forget the exact terms, but on the line after the cp statement, you type in a jp (or similar) statement, where the first argument is the term I forgot, and the second term is the label.

I get what you mean... the

jp nc,addr
jp c,addr
jp z,addr
jp nz,addr

stuff? I think that c is greater than and nc is less than or equal to, but I could be wrong. z is equality or zero and nz is not equal or non-zero. (That sounds right to me)

And then there's some more, but I don't use them very often. Parity/Overflow, Sign, etc...

LOL maybe you have that nasty virus that's gone around pretty much the whole world by now. Colds, fevers, the flu... I have allergies (but I don't know what I'm allergic to), and I had a fever about a month ago... and I had a bad cold, but it's getting better now.

355/113
Yum

I'm a loser. I calculated that out just so in math when the teacher gives us pi problems and tells us to use 22/7, I could raise my hand and say, "Wouldn't 355/133 be more accurate?"

The teacher replies:

"Yes, it would, Wesley, but -i*(ln -1) is even more precise."

Probably more along the lines of "Oh be quiet Wesley"

Then she pulls out her handgun and... okay, hopefully she's not that kind of teacher ;)

4*((.5)!)^2=PI according to Windows Calculator

Is it possible to calculate (.5!)...why trust Bill Gates? He fell out a window...

LOL. How does one calculate a decimal factorial? Does one replace (.5)! with (1!/2!)?

LOL. How does one calculate a decimal factorial? Does one replace (.5)! with (5!/10!)?

(after I posted the above comment, I realized that it would be impossible).

My original idea was to create a stat plot and find a relationship, and that way, you could get all of the in-betweens, but that doesn't seem right now.

Seriously? LOL! That's hilarious! How many stories? ... or were you joking?

I'm joking but it would be a very ironic death. LOL

Oh... but it still made me laugh :)

I hate Windows for how buggy it is, how many security holes there are, and how stubborn it is (I'm leaving out the BSOD stuff). I also hate the language that comes out of my mouth (and hands), but I'm too busy to learn another one right now. I really don't know if there is any joke that is more funny than that for me.

PS-Where do you think he got the name...

Not literaly people

typo: 355/113 not 355/133

What about 314159265358979323 / 100000000000000000?

lol

That's cheating. To do that accurately you need to already know what pi is, and the whole goal is to be able to approximate it without using pi itself.

oh come on, if your going to do it ... do it right
314159265358979323846264338327950 28841971693993751058209749445922 / (10^64)

had to split cuz it wont let me exceed word len of 40 :)

Actually, more acurate is one of the converging sequence used to determine PI. However, Im in no mood to dig through my calc book to find it...

Well, yes, there are more accurate methods, but I'm not about to say "Wouldn't SUM(8/(16X^2-16X+3)) bounded by 1 and (Pick a number) be more accurate?"

Why don't they just use 3.
1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502...? (Or chickendude's 5000000000000 digits? lol, that was cool :) Is it still there?)

probably deleted to make enough space on ticalc for approximatly 50 "Hello World MATH LEFT DOWN DOWN DOWN (!)" programs, of which we all love downloading...

They're more fun to make, but not to play. That didn't make any sense.

Disp "Hello World [[2nd][Catalog][Theta][Enter]]"

I think he meant one of those reaction basic games where it displays "MATH" and you have to press the math key before the time runs out, or something like that. (Hey, I made one of those once, don't make fun of it! LOL -- I didn't upload it, though.)

Oh hey, Bullfrog, I uploaded the Bullfrog program! :)

Oh, um.... I read somewhere these different methods on how to calcuale pi, and I can't remember them now... but OMG here's one

Go into windows calculator
Type .5
Hit the factorial key (n!)
Hit the sqaure key (x^2)
Multiply by four (* , 4)
and you'll get PI. That disturbs me more than anything because you can't take a factorial of a non-integer (at least from what we learned back a looooong time ago). I had a guess on how it might work, but it's probably wrong, so I'll just leave it at that. :)

you can take the "factorial" of any positive number (maybe it has to be rational, i dont remember) and any non-integer negative number (maybe it has to be rational). To do this, you have to use the gamma function definition of the factorial function. I forgot the exact formula, but it is an integral involving e. Also, it holds the property that F(x)=x*F(x-1) (Where F is gamma, and x is any number)

Oh yeah, and for e...

Goto Y1 and type (X+1/X)^X
and then keep going to the right of the graph and the farther right you'll go, the more digits of e you'll get. I think that's the equation, anyway... I haven't tried it in a while, so I'm not 100% sure.

I'm probably wrong, so tell me and make me feel dumb if I am :)

e = the infinate sumation of 1/n!, where n starts at 0.

I think I've seen that before, somewhere. Anyway, I just made a simple, stupid program to try it for me, and it worked :)

OMG, when I typed that in on my calculator and I saw 3.141592 I was SO scared because I thought that the computer screwed up or something because I KNOW that PI can't be written as a fraction... and then I saw the other digits and calmed down ;-) LOL I was just thinking... it would be so funny if there was a loophole in pre-algebra or something that could mess up equations and stuff... <scary music>I have a scary mind ];-)</scary music>

When I first found that fraction, I was so excited and I wrote it all over my test (except in the answer spots) and my teacher was so angry she threatened to give me that as a grade.

355/133

I love it

Damn my typonessm 355/113

LOL, does your teacher not like you? ;-) Some teachers don't like the kids who know it all, and then the nice teachers do like those students.

No one (figuratively speaking) likes me :'(

Very sad, but I suppose I deserve it. After the whole not having a text book for 2 1/2 quarters thing, she got a little flustered at me, though she still thinks I rock the math department's socks off. Look, there they go! *flying socks*

355/113

Make programs on your calculator and when she's not looking, send them to her calculator. Hehehehehe >:) The problem is, she'd probably know it was you. LOL

O.O She would, she hates my programs. I made the mistake of showing her one of them and all the beacoups of stuff itcould do.
She fumed. Visibly.

beacoup=french :)
That's so funny... she must really not like you :) Does she like anybody?

She's alright actually.
One time, during a quiz, she started telling us how to do the problems.
"But Ms Welch, I got -"
"NO! The answer is 5x-2!"

That was funny, I laughed. Bwahha!

umm, if you look through the 83+ manual, you will see that factorial of intergers + 0.5 are approximated using pi...