Happy Pi Day!
Apparently, today is called "Pi Day" in honor of the number 3.1415926...or, as we all know it, pi.
I think that it is a wonderful idea to dedicate March 14th as the day to honor the ratio between the diameter of a circle and its circumference. That's the number pi in case you didn't know.
Pi is truly a wonderful number. It amazes me how it, along with other irrational numbers, never seems to terminate. People have calculated more than 1 million digits of pi, and they still cannot find a definite pattern to this truly amazing number.
Other numbers that amaze me are:
e (Euler's number) - 2.7182818284590452353602874713527...
e is the base of the National Logarithms. The value of (1 + 1/n)n approaches the value "e" as it gets larger in value.
The value of e is also equal to: 1 + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! + 1/4!...
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The Golden Ratio. Ah, yes. It equals approximately 1.618.
If you were to divide a line in two so that
the longer part divided by the smaller part = the whole length divided by the longer part
Then you will have what is called the Golden Ratio.
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Numbers truly fascinate me. Don't they fascinate you, too, Sadaharu?
I think that it is a wonderful idea to dedicate March 14th as the day to honor the ratio between the diameter of a circle and its circumference. That's the number pi in case you didn't know.
Pi is truly a wonderful number. It amazes me how it, along with other irrational numbers, never seems to terminate. People have calculated more than 1 million digits of pi, and they still cannot find a definite pattern to this truly amazing number.
Other numbers that amaze me are:
e (Euler's number) - 2.7182818284590452353602874713527...
e is the base of the National Logarithms. The value of (1 + 1/n)n approaches the value "e" as it gets larger in value.
The value of e is also equal to: 1 + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! + 1/4!...
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The Golden Ratio. Ah, yes. It equals approximately 1.618.
If you were to divide a line in two so that
the longer part divided by the smaller part = the whole length divided by the longer part
Then you will have what is called the Golden Ratio.
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Numbers truly fascinate me. Don't they fascinate you, too, Sadaharu?