what would you do if pi=3

estile · 2013-03-20 07:58:19

what would you do if you discovered that pi did not = 3.1415926535...., but instead was just 3?

jvvg · 2013-03-20 08:08:37

Actually, Alabama legally defined Pi as 3 for a while.

However, my grades in math would go way down if that happened.

SFollis · 2013-03-20 08:52:01

Circles would be in the wrong shape! Now my head is misshapen!

Molybdenum · 2013-03-20 16:50:45

Wasn't that Indiana? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill)

And.. well.. Pi can't equal 3. So its hard to say what would happen if it did.

SJRCS_011 · 2013-03-20 21:31:54

Mathematicians would become rather confused

Molybdenum · 2013-05-16 16:46:01

Although pi does equal 4:

SJRCS_011 · 2013-05-16 17:49:13

Molybdenum wrote:

Although pi does equal 4:

lol

LS97 · 2013-05-17 17:45:19

Molybdenum wrote:

Although pi does equal 4:
http://qntm.org/files/trollpi/piequals4.png

Take a 4 foot string and wrap it around a wheel with 1 foot diameter... feel free to send over the extra 10 inches!

Molybdenum · 2013-05-18 09:34:11

LS97 wrote:

Molybdenum wrote:
Although pi does equal 4:
http://qntm.org/files/trollpi/piequals4.png
Take a 4 foot string and wrap it around a wheel with 1 foot diameter... feel free to send over the extra 10 inches!

And I get to keep 7.64 millimeters?

LS97 · 2013-05-18 16:05:06

Molybdenum wrote:

LS97 wrote:
Molybdenum wrote:
Although pi does equal 4:
http://qntm.org/files/trollpi/piequals4.png
Take a 4 foot string and wrap it around a wheel with 1 foot diameter... feel free to send over the extra 10 inches!
And I get to keep 7.64 millimeters?

Yeah, I'm feeling generous today! In fact, you can even keep the other 0.0025591858 mm!

Molybdenum · 2013-05-19 09:19:47

LS97 wrote:

Molybdenum wrote:
LS97 wrote:
Take a 4 foot string and wrap it around a wheel with 1 foot diameter... feel free to send over the extra 10 inches!
And I get to keep 7.64 millimeters?
Yeah, I'm feeling generous today! In fact, you can even keep the other 0.0025591858 mm!

Here, just to be nice, you can have the last 31.0575 femtometers (which is close to pi*10?)

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LS97 · 2013-05-20 15:43:50

Molybdenum wrote:

LS97 wrote:
Molybdenum wrote:
And I get to keep 7.64 millimeters?
Yeah, I'm feeling generous today! In fact, you can even keep the other 0.0025591858 mm!
Here, just to be nice, you can have the last 31.0575 femtometers (which is close to pi*10?)

I'm honoured. I'll take whatever's left too. Then I might need to go get an ice pack. All for a few yoctometers of string...

SFollis · 2013-05-22 14:49:13

Molybdenum wrote:

Although pi does equal 4:
http://qntm.org/files/trollpi/piequals4.png

that's just 'denting' the corners in, so it will still be the same. You could even say pi = 10000000 if you wanted with this

SFollis · 2013-05-23 10:36:36

NEWS NEWS NEWS!!!!

π does equal 3.14.... but DOESN'T equal 3.141...

According to my newest π calculator, π equals.... 3.1477169876....!!!!! is this real though? the world may never know! although seriously, that's weird O_o

SFollis · 2013-05-23 10:39:29

MOLYBDENUM

did you get your username from the periodic table of elements? (the element molybdenum, atomic # = 42)

LS97 · 2013-05-23 12:59:37

SFollis wrote:

MOLYBDENUM
did you get your username from the periodic table of elements? (the element molybdenum, atomic # = 42)

I would very so suppose, because otherwise it would be a very coincidental choice.

Molybdenum · 2013-05-23 16:35:02

LS97 wrote:

SFollis wrote:
MOLYBDENUM
did you get your username from the periodic table of elements? (the element molybdenum, atomic # = 42)
I would very so suppose, because otherwise it would be a very coincidental choice.

Yes. 42 is important as well.

estile · 2013-07-09 21:47:15

Molybdenum wrote:

LS97 wrote:
SFollis wrote:
MOLYBDENUM
did you get your username from the periodic table of elements? (the element molybdenum, atomic # = 42)
I would very so suppose, because otherwise it would be a very coincidental choice.
Yes. 42 is important as well.

oh, you got it from the hitchhikers guide!

edward789121 · 2016-06-14 13:13:35

SFollis wrote:

Circles would be in the wrong shape! Now my head is misshapen!

no, the universe would explode!
for example:
the diameter is 42.
42 x 3 = 126
it would be smaller.
but still...
the diameter would be 42...
conclusion
but they are the same diameter!
mathematics would break!
(mathematics are essential to the universe)
so the universe would be unexistant!

f1lip · 2016-08-06 14:56:16

Add on those extra .1415926535...., to fix it...

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