How to calculate Pi to 1,000,000 places in your head .

[MasterPlaster]

I was always taught that Pi is 22 divided by 7 .

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You wait until I see my old maths teacher....

This kind of teaching is criminal.

[mscoffman]

@neptune
Actual, arithmetic pi isn't cyclic; it's absolutely random.

--Lee

Careful Lee, There are orders of randomness, just like there are orders
of infinity...there exists a computer
algorithm for computing the next decimal digit of pi without calculating
all the preceding digits...that algorithm represents a pattern. While
pi will appear to pass first order digit randomness tests...beating
deterministic random algorithms together, can cause less random,
more ordered outcomes then the product of their probabilities would
indicate.

:S:MarkSCoffman

[neptune]

I seem to have knack of opening cans of worms! For the first time I begin to understand why some state [Tenessee ?] passed a law that henceforth , the value of Pi was to be taken as 3.

[ResinRat2]

Henceforth, I decree that my Bank Account shall, from this moment forward, have the value of $1,000,000.00 into perpetuity. No matter how much I pull out, its value shall never diminish nor increase from this number. So be it, on this date of April 15, AD2011, so let it be done!!

Now all I need to do is get the rest of the world to believe me. LOL!

This website cracks me up.

[vonwolf]

   I went to school with a kid that had pi memorized out to 3000 places, he wanted to get into to Guinness book of world records. He had a book that had 10 digits in 10 line blocks. You could give him any page and count down say 5 blocks and 3 blocks in and ask him the 3rd row and he could rattle off that 10 digit row, it was quite impressive.
   and no he never got the record, too many rules just try to get a public official to sit and verify some 16 year old kid rattling off pi to the 3000Th digit.
   Pete