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(Message started by: Frank_W on Feb 24th, 2005, 7:33am)
Title: A piece of Pi
Post by Frank_W on Feb 24th, 2005, 7:33am
I sat down and watched the movie, "Pi" last night... What an amazing, brilliant movie!
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by john_d on Feb 24th, 2005, 7:37am

Directed by Darren Aronofsky, he also did a movie called Requiem for a Dream, equally if not more brilliant movie but watch only if you want to be thoroughly depressed.

Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by Frank_W on Feb 24th, 2005, 7:58am
Yeah... I've heard of it, John. I loved the ending to Pi. I just loved it... :)
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by guesst on Feb 24th, 2005, 8:48am

on 02/24/05 at 07:58:56, Frank_W wrote:
Yeah... I've heard of it, John. I loved the ending to Pi. I just loved it... :)

Yes me too, think I'll try it, all you have to do it seems, is drill a hole in your head where the pain is centralized and you will be cured!  ;)
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by Frank_W on Feb 24th, 2005, 9:06am
You don't even want to know just how close I've truly come to digging my own eyeball out.  :(
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by guesst on Feb 24th, 2005, 9:14am

on 02/24/05 at 09:06:37, Frank_W wrote:
You don't even want to know just how close I've truly come to digging my own eyeball out.  :(

Pretty sure I already know, man.  :-/
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by Frank_W on Feb 24th, 2005, 9:20am
[smiley=hug.gif]
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by sandie99 on Feb 24th, 2005, 10:30am
when I'm down, I watch The Hours...
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Feb 24th, 2005, 3:15pm

on 02/24/05 at 07:58:56, Frank_W wrote:
I loved the ending to Pi.


I thought pi was infinite....

Don't dig out the eyes Frank. It won't help.[smiley=pokeeye.gif]

Get to the piano to get your mind off of the screaming head.

PFDAN to you.
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by floridian on Feb 24th, 2005, 3:18pm

on 02/24/05 at 15:15:47, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:
I thought pi was infinite....


And it cannot be expressed as a ratio of two numbers, that makes it irrational, too.  

I guess its false advertising - only a slice of pi.

Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by Frank_W on Feb 24th, 2005, 3:26pm
A SLICE of Pi! My bad...  [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by Frank_W on Feb 24th, 2005, 3:28pm

on 02/24/05 at 15:15:47, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:
I thought pi was infinite....

Don't dig out the eyes Frank. It won't help.[smiley=pokeeye.gif]

Get to the piano to get your mind off of the screaming head.

PFDAN to you.


er.... The end of the movie! Interestingly enough, I was shadowing last night, and shadowed again for a couple of hours, this morning. Fortunately, neither of them amounted to anything more than a Kip 2.

PFDAN's, bro'
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by john_d on Feb 24th, 2005, 4:30pm

on 02/24/05 at 15:18:32, floridian wrote:
And it cannot be expressed as a ratio of two numbers


i think you mean evaluated maybe?   Don't want the universe to turn into a square.  ;)

This sounds like a good movie for tonight,  or maybe _What Dreams May Come_ again, I love that movie.  
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by vig on Feb 24th, 2005, 5:53pm
I thought pi was infinite....



It's transcendental, too...
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by guesst on Feb 24th, 2005, 5:55pm

on 02/24/05 at 17:53:49, vig wrote:
I thought pi was infinite....



It's transcendental, too...

Yeah and it tastes good too.  ;;D
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by ghost62 on Feb 24th, 2005, 7:34pm

on 02/24/05 at 17:55:44, guesst wrote:
Yeah and it tastes good too.  ;;D

[smiley=spit.gif]
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by Frank_W on Feb 24th, 2005, 8:39pm
I was in an engineering meeting and someone said, "Pi R squared."

Some goofball piped up, "No!! Pie are ROUND!!"

[smiley=laugh.gif] It was awhile before anyone got back to the calculations at hand. LOL
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by Ueli on Feb 24th, 2005, 8:48pm
Just in case any math student is reading this thread, LOL:

An infinite number is larger than any arbitrarily large value you care to name.
-  pi has a limited value, 3.141591 < pi < 3.041592, and therefore it is finite.

An irrational number is not expressible as the quotient of two integers.

An transcendental number is any irrational number that is not an algebraic number (not expressable by a finite string of rational numbers and elementary operators). Or in other words, is not the root of a polynomial with integer coefficients.

pi is a transcendental number (and that includes it is also irrational).
[smiley=smokin.gif]
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by clarence on Feb 24th, 2005, 9:23pm

on 02/24/05 at 20:48:49, Ueli wrote:
Just in case any math student is reading this thread, LOL:

An infinite number is larger than any arbitrarily large value you care to name.
-  pi has a limited value, 3.141591 < pi < 3.041592, and therefore it is finite.

An irrational number is not expressible as the quotient of two integers.

An transcendental number is any irrational number that is not an algebraic number (not expressable by a finite string of rational numbers and elementary operators). Or in other words, is not the root of a polynomial with integer coefficients.

pi is a transcendental number (and that includes it is also irrational).
[smiley=smokin.gif]


Wow!  I believe you.

Casey
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by kissmyglass on Feb 24th, 2005, 9:26pm
Looks like you should stick to taking pictures Vig... ;;D
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by john_d on Feb 24th, 2005, 9:31pm
How did you fit all that smart in such a small post?  Thanks Ueli


on 02/24/05 at 20:48:49, Ueli wrote:
Just in case any math student is reading this thread, LOL:

An infinite number is larger than any arbitrarily large value you care to name.
-  pi has a limited value, 3.141591 < pi < 3.041592, and therefore it is finite.

An irrational number is not expressible as the quotient of two integers.

An transcendental number is any irrational number that is not an algebraic number (not expressable by a finite string of rational numbers and elementary operators). Or in other words, is not the root of a polynomial with integer coefficients.

pi is a transcendental number (and that includes it is also irrational).
[smiley=smokin.gif]
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by clarence on Feb 24th, 2005, 9:33pm
Ok, I am no math whiz, and am not in a position to question you.  However, I was just wondering.  Wouldn't it make more sense if:


on 02/24/05 at 20:48:49, Ueli wrote:
< 3.041592,


were 3.141592

because how can pi be greater than a number, and at the same time less than a number that is less than a number it is greater than?

Or am I crazy?

Casey
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by Donna_D. on Feb 24th, 2005, 9:54pm
I'm having Algebra flashbacks....


...and it is NOT pretty!



[smiley=huh.gif]


DD
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by Frank_W on Feb 24th, 2005, 9:58pm
Thank you, Ueli. Fascinating...
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by kissmyglass on Feb 24th, 2005, 10:36pm

on 02/24/05 at 17:53:49, vig wrote:
I thought pi was infinite....



It's transcendental, too...


Sorry Paul,

Looks like I should stick to minding my own busuness...
I can't even spell transcendental let alone know what the hell it means.... :)

Kev
Title: Re: A piece of Pi
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Feb 25th, 2005, 9:02am
This is giving me a CH.  [smiley=huh.gif]


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