Survey posted 2000-03-15 16:54 by Andy.

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Only on ticalc would the majority of people know 11 to 50 digits of pi. Wow, we're geeks! Kind of curious as to how this works out.

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Very few would... I'd be willing to wager that %99 of the people who respond that way can't go beyond 3.14159.

Actually, I think the best way to do it would be to memorize it as a set of telephone numbers.

Wait, we need a "Pi Song" that goes through pi to the 60th digit or so.

i remember a long time ago in a math class we each were to make up a sentence (or more) for the first 26 or 50 (i can't remember which) digits of pi. for example, "how" would be 3 digits, "i" would be 1, etc. it turned out working pretty good.

Umm... id say that %90 of people would go up to 9 digits because most people have TI calcs and they go to 9.

The TI-86 has pi as 3.1415926535898

Only in memory. The 86 (and 89) only display 3.14159265359

who really cares????

I know what to do. Next month, survey how many digits of e us geeks have memorized.

i do

i think bob is right.

I know pi to the 87th digit.
3.1415926532898321286 7946767893569134874746
59935409039256114857640 9585492983762394582114

u r a nerd man that is sooooooo not cool

I think dim-ti should have a challenge making a pi program.
Then again, considering the numerous updates of the challenge section since before new year's, it might not be a good idea.

I wrote a version in TI-BASIC that calculates PI to as many digits as you want. It takes about 5 minutes to get 50 digits :) so be patient.

Where? :) Give us link ... now. :)

Very interested in this. However, will it terminate eventually (ERR: MEMORY)? Would it therefore be better to copy-paste ~20k of pi into an .83p and send it over? Or would it generate each digit individually? If so, I'm interested.

The difference between 10 and 9.8 is greater than the difference between 3.14 and pi. Nevertheless, my physics teacher insists that pi=3.14 and g=10.

Have you tried running it on an emulator like VTI with the "Restrict Speed" thing turned off? I can imagine that it might go a little faster :). But the problem is, if you have Restrict Speed of, the virtual calculator APDs a lot faster...

I wrote a pi calculator for the Mac. It can produce several thousand digits per second on a G3.

My Ti89-Basic program calculates the first 50 digits in 4 seconds (no joke!!!). It does the first 100 digits in 15 seconds. Can anybody do better?

Do you have this program on any web site?

I like the idea of a PI song. I don't remember where I got the wav file from, but one day I found a PI song written for the guitar. The guy who wrote it had used the numbers for the note placement in the Key of D (I think).

New version of solar striker for 89 and 92+ available at http://brian.t.free.fr/Kit_solar.zip
It has the cool scrolling back and everything. It has a level editor too.

from memory
i do solomly swear.....
3.141592654

Since when is 19.5% a majority?