might have been in chat or some other thread and if so we apologise

but we also apologise for being so distracted last year by all the infectious murder that we missed this

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12601

Simon Plouffe

By using an asymptotic formula known for the numbers of Euler and Bernoulli it is possible to obtain an explicit expression of the 𝑛th digit of 𝜋 in decimal or in binary, it also makes it possible to obtain the 𝑛th digit of digit of powers of 𝜋^𝑛.

so all those jokers who like to show off their memory work of millions of digits of pi are now obsolete, they’re just doing asymptotic formulation

anyway this is significant because back when all of yous were young the big news was that the digits could be calculated, but only in hexadecimal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula

we also apologise for the html entity fkup

“By using an asymptotic formula known for the numbers of Euler and Bernoulli it is possible to obtain an explicit expression of the 𝑛th digit of 𝜋 in decimal or in binary, it also makes it possible to obtain the 𝑛th digit of digit of powers of 𝜋𝑛.”

Is this a run-on sentence?

dv said:

Is this a run-on sentence?

don’t know, we’re pretty shit at mathematics, but our understanding of it is that this lets you compute any specific digit without having to compute preceding digits

> By using an asymptotic formula

Are you aware that asymptotic formulas diverge?
The more the digits, the less the accuracy?

I assume that, to overcome that, the asymptotic formula has to get progressively more complicated as the number of digits increases.

anyway there was a thread for all this so we’ll update shortly

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poikilotherm said:

Google has a game to see how many decimals of pi you can remember.

we remember all 10 of them

5 is more than enough.

I thought the SSSF had concluded that pi is 3.

I don’t think there’s any, it’s just 3.

Damn you Witty, damn you to hell.

I can’t remember my own number plate, my savant gifts must be elsewhere, or they’re so modest as to be unrecognizable

Hell smell. I’m coming back as a dolphin.

No. That was Donde…

Are we not counting the 3?

4 is more than enough then.

donde was to maths what dean was to poetry.

sighs

Those were the days.

well look 5 gives you 6 places which is a pretty shit deal compared with 7, which would give you 11 places so we’ll take that no matter what The Rev Dodgson says

obviously not the only consideration since binary pi only needs 2 but hey

also these days all you need to remember is the digital formula, nobody cares about outright rote on the figures

Donde was many, he was legion.

4 for me.

I’m in the unfortunate position of remembering the number plate of the car before the present one but not this one.

Is dean now replaced by transition?

look being the quality engineers we are, we don’t think you need any at all, just the order of magnitude should be enough

𝜋 = 10⁰

I remembers it to enough digits, just so long ya knows has an idea of retationships of circumferences and diameters, that it has a ratio thingy, it’s good like that, friendly, has a consistency

Pretty much.

I remember the number plate, engine numbers ( I blew the original engine up) and frame number of my first motorbike, a 1952 500cc Norton Dominator.

Long term memory works well
The rego on my first car (in the 50s) was UE 026

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-15/naplan-results-inform-schools-parents-policy-kids-miss-tests/102096454

Hey DA.Tell the kid she doesn’t have to NAPLAN and go to the zoo instead.

we suppose there’s the other extrême when you may as well not bother with any standardised testing or any standards at all, just a proliferation of independent systems, even any state designated schooling is oppression, home schooling is freedom

Reading that, I see the politician who couldn’t work out 4 × 4.15 yesterday was just suffering from maths anxiety.

I’ve only ever bothered with 4. It’s easy enough with a calculator to just put in 22/7 if you need more.

Aye, that’s what we were taught in school.

You know that 22/7 is only accurate to 2 decimal places?

use 3 + sqrt(0.02) it’s better