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- maglob, on 10/12/2007, -38/+408PI IS EXACTLY 3!!!!!!!!
- Scheissenegger, on 10/12/2007, -15/+261pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
And now I finally know that number you're going to tell me it's wrong? - trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -37/+273This reminded me of an important truth...
I still hate Math. - themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -12/+171Does that mean the long number all of those autistic people memorized are now useless?
- kazimir34, on 10/12/2007, -11/+163Google says "pi = 3.14159265" not 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679 and Google is always right.
- dynacrylic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+112... time to go back to all my math and geometry teachers/professors and have them regrade all my tests
- trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+104I proved it wrong but the universe unmade my proof.
- hematochezia, on 10/12/2007, -33/+128Quickly, let's redefine everything useful to scientists and other informed adults regardless of convenience in order to make it easy for children to understand!
CAT is spelled incorrectly. It's supposed to be KAT, because then it's easier for children to spell. WTF. - Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -2/+73If Pi is wrong, I don't wanna be right...
- Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -15/+83Pi is infallible, to prove it wrong would unmake the universe.
- CaesarBlue, on 10/12/2007, -8/+756 × 9 = 42
- gometro33, on 10/12/2007, -12/+69pi = circumference / diameter
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -28/+84If pi were to be 2pi, then all the formulas that use pi will have to use pi/2 instead! :p ... and you just get another problem.
pi is pi because it's pi - thetaco82, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60You both fail at comments. Good day.
- Lixie, on 10/12/2007, -14/+69Your mom's Pi is delicious.
- futzy99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+55You all realize what this really means...
WE GET TWO PI DAYS!
JUNE 28TH, HERE I COME! - spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40"Because nothing more than 7 years old is worth seeing again."
OMGZ! Paedophile on the internetz! - econoar, on 10/12/2007, -13/+50I'm pretty sure that wasn't it
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Wow. so few of your RTFA.
- CaesarBlue, on 10/12/2007, -7/+40So does this make the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything 2*21?
- bigspruce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35hope your math teacher said "pi r square"
or you were being cheated out of a math education - InfiniteNothing, on 10/12/2007, -17/+46Doesn't e^i*pi =1 prove pi should change?
- DevastatorIIC, on 10/12/2007, -18/+46Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Which is 3.14159... Don't get your math degree in Utah, I guess.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+36So, it's an image of a picture of a scan of a magazine article. Posted in image format instead of text for some reason.
Alrighty..
Oh, it's also from 2001, quality. - Scheissenegger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26@Zafras:
Enlarging your comment crashed firefox, nice find! - lsandberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Congratulations you took AP Calc, now try to learn how to say something relevant
- DCstewieG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24And if it had always been as this guy said, you'd argue that pi is the ratio of the circumference to the radius. It's just a matter of what we chose in the first place.
- jevb007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24@infinitenothing
Euler's formula is e^(ix)=cos(x)+sin(x), so his identity works out to be e^(ipi)=cos(pi)+isin(pi)=-1+0=-1.
In a prettier form, e^(ipi)+1=0 - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24"Oh, it's also from 2001, quality."
Because nothing more than 7 years old is worth seeing again. - ohmar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Hmmm....what is the quickest way to get yourself blocked on digg...
- InfiniteNothing, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24Bah... too late to edit. By pi, i mean the proposed 2*pi.
- ElectricKetchup, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22It's sad how many people on Digg miss the point and post garbage without reading the article. I actually agree with the article and I used to think the same thing 10 years ago when I took trig(algrebra 2) in highschool.
- humperdeath, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Well, my brain nearly exploded while reading that article, but, fortunately, I finished just in time. I now am happy to report that a dollar is now worth $2, or twice it's previous value. This means I am now making well into 6 figures salary. I also noticed that my actual weight, in pounds is half of what it was just yesterday, thanks to the new definition of pi, but alas, it now takes me exactly twice as long to drive to work as it used to. But good thing my car now gets double the gas milage it just did yesterday. I hope I understood this new pi thing.
- profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I find your line of thought delightfully refreshing.
And hunger-inducing. - GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17No he makes sense. What we define Pi as is arbitrary. We could have easily have built a system out of circumference/radius = Pi. In fact most mathematicians accept that the radius is more important than the diameter and in a new world we would use his Pi.
In hindsight the current Pi propagates a lot of unnecessary complexity and 2Pi would abolish most of it. What's done is done though. - jadenguy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21i dig the elegance of his belief, man. well, i dugg it. but regardless, i do dig it. c = 1/2πr^2 does make more sense with everything else. and most of the good formulas DO use 2π for something or other. we are silly for having stuck with that notation. but it's certainly too late to change it, as per TFA, which people didn't seem to R. at least, not without looking to be sceptical rather than finding out what he has to say. that's probably the biggest issue with digg, really. also, puns.
- Intrepion, on 10/12/2007, -11/+27googol * pi = 3.14159265 * 10^100
- shadydentist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15The ratio of the unit circle to the unit square is exactly pi. And 2pi definitely shows up more often in physics and calculus than pi by itself does, so the article does have kind of a point. However, its far too late to change anything.
- oneboy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22Anyone have a link to the largest Digg comment ever?
- AbortedFetus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13All the text on my screen looks so much sharper after reading that article!
- viperman5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/index1.html
- AJH16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Yes, and the article admits that it is too late to change.
- popflop, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Wow, talk about some shoddy coding. Digg doesn't check how long your comment is? I'm sure someone could take the site to its knees knowing that if they wanted to.
- EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11*points gun at therealipod's head* Mathematics... do you speak it!?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15sheeeeeeeeeeshhh
Everyone knows that Pluto is Mickey's Dog... - ZeAce, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Yea, the article is pretty clear that the author doesn't actually want anything to change. It's more of a "wouldn't it be great if" the value we call 2-pi had a symbol instead of pi. I agree wholeheartedly. In fact I've been know to write (2P)/2 on occasion because I usually think in terms of full circles divided in half.
- edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I'm going to start using that wonderful three-legged-pi symbol in my working for Eng Mathematics. Bastards ***** around with integration notation, so turnabout's fair play.
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17Pluto is not a bloody planet and never was. If Pluto is a planet then any attempt to classify it would leave us with about 40 planets. It is just a random rock in our solar system.
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@jevb007
did you even rta? pi as c/2r wasn't widely adopted until euler started using it. and we all know what a horrible mathematician euler was... :P - profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Pi isn't wrong, but economics IS a social science. Not sure where you were going with that...
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