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Pi hoax?
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Posted By:
Jul 30, 2004
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Someone at http://abovetopsecret.com/ is claiming that they know the true value of pi. Is it a hoax, a lie, or a miscalculation? I think so. Read below for more.
The Pi sequency revealed ?
The ATS server bugged when I started to post my discovery !
I've told you that I started some research about the cycle number (142857) and TADAM ! : here's an amazing result... Maybe the key of one of the oldest and hardest mathematical enigmae :
arctan(142857)*2=3.14157865............................. = PI
This mean that :
4arctan(1)=2arctan(142857)=pi
Category: ; Replies: 14
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Comments
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 | 11:52 AM
There's always room for PI, eh? |
Ariel
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 | 08:57 PM
I love pi. I once memorised the first 50 digits of it. |
#1
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 | 09:17 AM
50 digits? I guess you have a lot of free time. |
Matt
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 | 09:18 PM
Got to be a leg-pull unless this guy who discovered this is very unfamiliar with trig. Ever see the plot of an arctan curve? Its limits are pi/2 and -pi/2. At very large numbers, the graph is pretty flat. So arctan(142857) is close to pi/2, but so is arctan(100000), arctan(123456), and the inverse tangent of any really large number. Any of them will be close to, but not exactly equal to, pi/2. If you're working with a calculator and have no knowledge of theory, it's impossible to tell the two apart. |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 | 07:22 PM
Yeah, what he said (what'd he say?) |
Matt
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 | 07:45 PM
Well, if you want a summary for people who hate math, it would be "142857 is nothing special; trying any big number would get you pretty darn close." |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 | 09:25 PM
Hey, I love math (22/7), but i became a habitual truant in the year we studied Trig, and had a steady girlfiend when we tackled Calculus...ah, mis-spent youth...ever see the Movie Pi (symbol)? I'd go as batty as the guy in the flick if I tried to remember much of my math days...personally, I think Pi holds the secret of the universe...I'd like a slice of that, to be sure... |
Will F
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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 | 03:48 AM
Yes, the author of page or whomever is somewhat correct. Pi is equal to the two times the arctan of infinity, meaning the tan of half pi is infinity, which it is.
But in a realistic sense, Pi is irrational and has no ending term/limit/etc. |
The Curator
in San Diego
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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 | 04:23 PM
Where exactly is this on the abovetopsecret site? Do you have a more specific link? |
#1
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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 | 09:38 AM
I'm on it! |
#1
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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 | 09:42 AM
Here it is.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread59612/pg1 |
The Curator
in San Diego
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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 | 09:58 AM
Okay, this is above my head. I've got no clue what the guy is talking about or why it would be significant.
Back in the days when I took trig, either we didn't study arctans or I zoned out during that lesson. |
Jake Blues
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 | 05:58 PM
When we were taught arctan curves in school i could care less that it was a curve hat got closer to zero but never reached it. i thought it was just useless crap, until i got a credit card bill and looked at the balance due |
Oиę S
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 | 10:33 PM
my comment for this posting is, fu<k math |
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