Pi square is nearly 10

25 pointsposted 3 hours ago
by freediver

17 Comments

olooney

2 minutes ago

I like the 4-5-6 theorem:

    pi^4 + pi^5 = e^6
Well, to five decimal places, anyway. Some other good ones:

    e^pi - pi = 20

    sqrt(2) ln pi = phi
There are also famous "almost integers" such as this one discovered by Ramanujan:

    e^(pi sqrt(163))
Which is is almost an integer to 12 decimal places.

renyicircle

3 hours ago

My first thought was "well of course it is, since pi is a little larger than 3" but it was cool to see an actual derivation of how much pi squared differs from 10 as a nice, closed form series.

verzali

2 hours ago

I remember discovering that pi x 10^7 is very close to the number of seconds in a year while at uni.

One of my tutors was convinced this had to be more than coincidence, but I always figured it was just chance and a nice but sometimes useful shortcut...

tzs

an hour ago

You might be able to send someone down an amusing (to observers) rabbit hole of wrongness by telling them it is not exact because Earth’s orbit is not perfectly circular.

GTP

26 minutes ago

You're such an evil person :D

Hnrobert42

25 minutes ago

Get enough numbers, accept wide error bars, and some of them are going to overlap.

leni536

an hour ago

This first became apparent to me when I got a slide rule. Pi is often marked on the various scales and an x^2 scale is often nearby the x scale.

Dwedit

an hour ago

If you don't unblock scripts from cdn.jsdelivr.net.cdn.cloudflare.net, the math code won't work.

BrandoElFollito

an hour ago

As an ex-physicist, pi^2 is 10. Like g.

I get it that this is a nice calculation with the Zeta function and everything, but 3 and a small something squared will be near 10 so it is 10.

Lerc

an hour ago

I was a little disappointed that the upper range of gravity on earth only goes to 9.8337. Just a little more and there would have been somewhere on earth that was an exact match.

It would have been the ideal (if chilly) place to start a cult.

smitty1e

2 hours ago

The author wants tau=2*pi, but in the Greek alphabet, tau has one vertical stroke, and pi has two.

So, visually in Greek, pi=2*tau would seem an improvement.

Oh, well.

Razengan

2 hours ago

pi's prevalence instead of tau is one of the strongest indicators that we live in a suboptimal timeline.

GTP

23 minutes ago

Then, convert the digits of pi to text to find how to achieve interdimensional travel to reach the optimal timeline.