Appreciating pi (not the edible variety)

Those who fear rows and rows of numbers, I recommend you to leave. Those who wonder what pi is so fascinating about, I recommend you to join me on this epic journey through pi.

EDIT: After having left this to rot for a few years, I have decided to correct some glaring typos. :D

Step 1 Grab your slice of pi (and please don't eat it 'till we're done)

Now to get some pi to appreciate. There are a lot of websites offering up to 2 million digits of pi. Don't worry, as we are not going that deep. We are stopping at the 100th digit or so.

Here is a website you can go to get pi :
http://www.eveandersson.com/pi/digits/

Here is a site to search pi digits :
http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery

Here are the 1st hundred decimal digits:

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679

apparently of which (some) I have memorized. In the recent years after not actively revising I have forgotten some off the far end.

Comments

[itsmanofpopsicle]

Just saying, pi is kinda incorrect. It's half of the real constant, 2pi, or tau. Look at tauday.com and see a whole manifesto on it.

Sorry for being such a party pooper. Pi is still cool, but not cool enough.

[tdawber-mandeno]

The string 12345678 occurs at position 186,557,266 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted.

The string and surrounding digits:

72269200957811705289 12345678 05029135885957638876

[frodobot]

Its a Palindrome not a Pandrilome :)

[pudgytaco]

thats wat he said palindrome

[pudgytaco]

pi tastes good

[crocboy]

Like my profile picture?   (the rating is 3.14 thats funny!)

[kidNeutrino]

just wishing you a happy π Day

[toothlesskiller]

Is it coincidence that the rating is 3.14? LOL!

[dark sponge]

I'm not going to rate it simply so it can stay that way!

[M4industries]

 OMFGWTFBBQ!

That is hilarious!

[harley_rly]

lol!

[rimes]

Hey, Pi is Einstein's Birthday too... Spooky huh?
Happens to be mine too... :-)
I know what I wan't my cake to look like now... Thanks!

[nutsandbolts_64]

 dude, that's my sister's b-day

[Shredder543]

I love pi =D

[blahblah86]

memorized pi to 61 decimal plaaces in pre-algebra one day.  i was *really* bored, but i still remember the digits!  the pi song helped.  it's on ytmnd.com or something.

[cowscankill]

this is all i know: 3.14159265358979323846323846264332643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998. my momwill give me ten dollars if i remember all one hundred

[zascecs]

I only memorized 3.1415926535897 ...so far

[cowscankill]

hehehe... Still have a ways to go xD 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640862089986280348253421170679. The other comment si posted are wrong. Lol.

[ditto500]

i got
3.141592653589793238426433 

[cowscankill]

Now I know 3.14159265358979323846264338327950 OMG! I CAN'T RECITE WITH 8TH GRADERS SINGING! :O I will do this later....

[ironman53]

doh ! i thought it was: 3.14159265441 ! i was wrong so ill start again :) when im on the throne ;)

[itsmanofpopsicle]

YOU KNOW WHAT? LET'S SCREAM AT THE TOP OF OUR VOICES!

[yourcat]

YOU FROGOT TO USE BOLD!!!!!

[acm321]

YOU FORGOT TO USE SPELL CHECK!!!!

[yourcat]

WHO CARES?!?!?!?!?!?!?

^{On the other hand, could this get any more pointless?}

[zascecs]

I do!!!!

lol, jk

[itsmanofpopsicle]

'EVERYONE THAT HAS A LIFE CARES!

[red-king]

I HAZ NOT GOT ONE OF THOSE WHAT IS IT?

but in all seriousness... this is a pretty pointless conversation...

[acm321]

YES, THIS IS VERY POINTLESS!!!!

[AdrianRobert]

Glad to see another pi-head. I memorized PI to 100 decimals in 1976 but never went any further. It's enough to count myself as a pi-head. Adrian

[shaneomacmcgee]

i got it to 37, and i thot *I* knew a lot...

i absolutely commend you dude

[Swishercutter]

"8164" 8 squared is 64 and 16x4=64

[rippinblaise]

good observation in 6th grade i memorized the most digits of pi in my grade and won a banana cream pie i memorized 75 or something im in 8th grade now and i still remember 45 digits

[yourcat]

I've memorized the Fibonacci series through 1597: 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 987 1597 and powers of two through 262,144: 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1,024 2,048 4,096 8,192 16,384 32,768 65,536 131,072 262,144

[trialex]

It always amazed me that the theoretical lift that is generated by a flat plate at any angle alpha is

L = 2*pi*alpha

Why 2*pi? where did that come from?

[CameronSS]

I'm curious--what is the lift measured in? And is there an equally simple formula for the induced drag of said plate?

[whatsisface]

Newtons I think, it's just an upward force.

[trialex]

No, it's a co-efficient, it's non-dimensional

[samv]

I'm not really sure what formula you refer to, but your calculating the surface between alpha and zero. 2*Pi (in radians) is actually 360°, so one circle. When you take a circle with radius 1, you measure the arc of 180° degrees, which is 3.1415...

[trialex]

Sorry I was being rhetorical... In aeronautics the first thing that you calculate the lift of is a flat plate, and the coefficient of lift genereated by a flat plate at an angle theta in radians is 2*pi*theta I just always found it amazing that pi works in all these different ways