Comments on: The Story of Pi

By: lynn

lynn — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:26:20 +0000

Great post! Our personal favorite is the Mathematical pi song on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJJJmQojcLM

By: Wilson

Wilson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:50:39 +0000

Excuse me, where both the numerator and denominator are whole numbers. I misspoke.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:50:00 +0000

@Jeff: Of course it is! It cannot be represented as a fraction where both the numerator and denominator are fractions. Just because there are formulas for finding it doesn’t mean it’s a rational number.

By: LhL

LhL — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:27:32 +0000

Cool video! The first part of the video did something my teachers never bothered to do. But I have to say I’m disappointed this video is only 2:57. About 17 seconds too short…

By: Ranger J

Ranger J — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:19:05 +0000

That was complicated for nothing. This surely would have screwed up my comprehension of pi if I would’ve seen this while I was in school!

By: Chris Higgins

Chris Higgins — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:03:56 +0000

@Ryan – yeah, I thought that was pretty funny actually. Like you could tell the narrator didn’t really have time to actually deal with explaining prime numbers or irrational numbers. :)

Also, as he says, one of the best uses of a supercomputer is to calculate digits of pi. Heck yeah.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:03:18 +0000

Technically Pi is not an irrational number.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:01:42 +0000

Cool! But the “pi has something to do with prime numbers” left me hanging!

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:34:41 +0000

all the info about pi i never wanted to know! but very informative