All 4 entries tagged Pi

Boredom + Microsoft Narrator = New Ringtone

The full MP3 is about a minute long and has the first 195 digits (including the 3), which is how much could fit in the folder name:

: 16 Jan 2008 14:49 |  Tags: Bored Folder Maths Microsoft Narrator Narrator Pi Randomness Ringtone Video |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Minor correction

Follow-up to Pi is exactly 3! from The randomness of tomorrow, today!

Since Google's picked up on my use of all those wrong Pis, you should add at least one more hit to each of the quoted values.
I'm the top result on some of them, too…

: 10 Jan 2006 19:07 |  Tags: Blog Correction Google Pi Randomness Warwick Blogs |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

I know you don't care, but who cares…

Follow-up to Pi is exactly 3! from The randomness of tomorrow, today!

There are 1,610 hits on Google for 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862 (that's 96 decimal places).

: 10 Jan 2006 12:28 |  Tags: Google Impressive Pi Randomness |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Pi is exactly 3!

I've just been searching for random things on Google because I'm bored, and I came up with these:

There are 18,800 hits for 3.14159265359
There are 1,670 hits for 3.14159265358
(Those two were just benchmarks; they're actually Pi – the first one's rounded to 12 significant figures, and the second is the first 12 digits)
There are 102 hits for 3.14159265357
There are 20 hits for 3.14159265356
There are 4 hits for 3.14159265355
There are 242 hits for 3.14159265354
There are 277 hits for 3.14159265353
There are no hits for 3.14159265352
There are 3 hits for 3.14159265351
And at this point I got bored. It's quite worrying, really…

Coincidentally, there are 1,950 hits for pi is exactly 3

: 06 Jan 2006 19:56 |  Tags: Google Pi Randomness Wrong |  Comments (5) |  Close comments |  Report a problem