Whodathunkit

[pne]

The ninth root of 10×e⁸ = 3.14159828…

Look familiar?

Comments

[opal1159.livejournal.com]

Who comes up with that?!

[karen2205]

Almost - I thought it was 3.14192654 though....

A057466

[pne.livejournal.com]

I was looking through the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/) and decided, for a lark, to look for "1,5,9,2,6,5". That got me pi, of course.

Then I had a look at a couple of "sequences in context", i.e. that start with terms similar to 3,1,4,1,5,...; one of those was A057466 (http://www.research.att.com/projects/OEIS?Anum=A057466), "The ninth root of 10*e^8".

[pne.livejournal.com]

Pi is, yes (though that number is rounded; the last digit is a 3, not a 4, but is followed by a 5: 3.141592653589793...).

But it's still surprisingly close.

Similarly for 355/113 = 3.14159292... (accurate to 0.00000849%) and 104348/33215 = 3.14159265392... (accurate to 0.00000001056%).

[opal1159.livejournal.com]

I forgot to use my icon!

[node-ue.livejournal.com]

You didn't know that? That's the basic foundation of... oh well apparently the world isn't ready for that knowledge yet. I'll wait 'till you discover it on your own.

3PO mode on:

[meeps-hitchie.livejournal.com]

Oh my ...