Inefficient Ways to Calculate Pi

Cecil said:

I think one of the most fascinating things about the universe is the way everything ties together so nicely.
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Sorry. We are here only by random chance. Ask any neo-Evolutionist .... :D
 
First celebrate Bolton's win at football by consuming mass quantities of the local ale at The Frog and Pizzle.Then get a stake and length of rope and head out to the local field of maize with your mates. Plonk the stake in the maize and tie one end of the rope to it. Line up everyone along the rope and stumble through a circle with the rope taut.
Then measure the circumference of the circle and the lenght of the rope and ask the local maths teacher how to figger out pi.
 
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hammegk said:
Sorry. We are here only by random chance. Ask any neo-Evolutionist .... :D
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Right. Because every little mathematical quirk that shows up out of the massive numbers of ways we manipulate numbers proves design.
 
I din't bring that oldie back to life!
Howsomever, I have heard a unique rationalization that measuring the inner circumference and the outer diameter could reconcile the difference between 3 and pi..
Like that would be possible... and not much easier to measure the outer circumference and the diameter and then have pi come out and stomp all over the place! :)
 
Here's the most amazing way of almost calculating pi:

[latex]$$ {\left(\frac{1}{10^5}\sum_{n=-\infty}^{n=\infty}e^{-(\frac{n^{2}}{10^{10}})\right)}^2 $$[/latex]

This expression will only give you the first 42 billion digits of pi correctly. :confused:
It does not actually converge onto the exact value.
 
Measure the length of a meandering stretch of river. It is pi times as long as the straight line distance from end to end.
 
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