Pi Definition and 514 Threads

As a high school student we were told to use ##\frac{22}{7}## as a rational approximation for ##\pi##. However, to the same level of accuracy, ##\frac{314}{100} = \frac{157}{50}## is also ##\pi## and since there's a ##100## and a ##5## in the denominator many calculations would've been far...

As the value of Pi is taken to more decimal places, does any sequence of digits become equally likely? I'm thinking of sequences like ...123456789.... ...333333... and so on. best regards ... Stef

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Is there a way to prove if the 0s (or 1s 2s or 3s or ... or 9s) that are present in the infinite sequence of digits of pi in the decimal system are finite or infinite? If they are infinite they are countable infinite or uncountable infinite? My intuition tells me that they are countable infinite...

I have two PIs who will write the first and second letter. And I'm torn between asking my direct supervisor from one of those labs (who was a grad student when I was working there and we became quite close) and a professor that I had for an upper div class I took during my last year. My...

Show that $$\frac{\pi}{4} = 1 - \frac{1}{3} + \frac{1}{5} - \frac{1}{7} + \cdots$$

A couple of years ago, I connected a USB printer to the USB socket on my broadband router. After a lot of trial and error (of which I remember no details) I was able to print from my windows laptop. Here are the port settings that currently work from the laptop: 1) Based on the above...

My understanding is that it probably means either ##+ \pi## or ## - \pi##, so that ##\pi## is either added to or subtracted from the first term, just like ##|x| = \pm x##.

They decay to identical particles but are they identical?

I don't have the menu item Evaluation > Debugger . Could it be a limitation of the Raspberry Pi version of Mathematica? Or are there other potential reasons for it? Can anyone with a RasPi using Mathematica check if they have the debug menu?

My Raspberry Pi 4 has a GUI widget that is supposed to let us specify WLAN settings on a per-SSID basis, but it doesn't work. (All SSIDs end up with the same setting). Some articles on the net say that one can modify the dhcpd.conf file with an entry headed by the SSID name and then put in...

Summary: A question about how PI controllers reach steady state Hello PhysicsForums, I need a little help understanding how a PI controller works when operating in steady state. Here is the equation in State Space form: Where In standard form, the equation is: Where The question I’m...

I used GIMP to edit copies of certain cursor files called left_ptr and hand2 from the "cursors" folders within the theme directories /usr/share/icons/[theme name]/cursor. This was for the themes "Adwaita" and "DMZ-white". Then I renamed the original cursor files and put the new edited versions...

Have neither seen an estimation nor derivation of pi that does not use trig functions. This is problematic as trig functions require radian inputs, via the relation pi radians = 180 deg. But if looking for pi, then how to get the input for the trig functions without pi? Sure there are...

I am not very good at proofs. The only thing I have come up with is the following regularity. However, I am not sure how this can be related to the above problem. Given a sphere ##S_a## with a center ##C## and a diameter of ##a##. I can now construct a line segment ##b## with the endpoints...

I was told that PI controller is a causal filter, and has frequency response represented by H(w) = Ki/(iw)+ Kp. I was also told that causal filter should satisfy this relationship H(w) = G(w) -i G_hat(w) where G_hat(w) is the Hilbert transform of G(w). Does this mean that we cannot freely...

I just saw that one of the ways of calculating Pi uses the set of prime numbers. This must sound crazy even to people who understand it, is it possible that this can be explained in terms that I, a mere mortal can understand or it is out of reach for non mathematicians?

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Hi. I am sure that this is something to do with it being Friday afternoon...but can anyone explain what I am missing here?

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I found this article about Alan Turing and his concept of Turing machines on the AMS website. Since we often get questions about countability and computability I thought it is worth sharing. https://blogs.ams.org/featurecolumn/2021/12/01/alan-turing-computable-numbers/ It also contains a Python...

I tried the following proof and got -2 < x < -1 and y = 0 but my prof said that there should be something else I am missing. I have no idea what that is. Thank you.

Is there a " reasonable" way to test for the normality of ##\pi## , i .e., that every digit occurs with the same frequency? Someone suggested randomly sampling strings of size 20 and outputting the frequency. Then I guess we could average the frequencies among samples , use a chi-squared test...

On July 22, V50 wrote https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/happy-pi-day.985513/post-6518554, and it got me thinking about the ratio of two integers approximating pi. I presume someone has done it, and that there is an algorithm for an optimal calculation. Then I found -...

For a project that I'm making it has a raspberry pi 0w as its cpu for running autonomously, But I want to make use the raspberry pi 0w as the receiver as well. The range needed is about 3000 feet minimum. Currently I have been looking at some rc and drone receivers that would work as well, but I...

I came across this and it is rather fun! Assume there is a floor and a wall. There is a 1 lkg box on the left and a box to its right as shown in the diagram. Assume there is no friction and that no energy is lost during any collision. Set the right box to 1 kg and cause it to move to the...

Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspberry OS... Recently did apt-get update and upgrade. It did an upgrade of the desktop after asking for permission to replace the file piwiz.desktop. It then ran a wizard to redo various options and preferences, including WiFi and password (which I had set up initially on...

A proper number is expressed in \pi in a similar way as a decimal integer is expressed in base 2. For example, 4375_{\pi} = 4{\pi^3}+3{\pi^2}+7{\pi}+5. The only exception I make is that the 10 digits are included when expressing a number with \pi. To clarify, the first positive such numbers are...

Hi. I'm not sure if physics/cosmology can deal with my question. I suspect not, but I'll ask it anyway. The answer could be "No" and that would be "end of". Is there any situation, where Pi = 3.142...does not exist as a fact? Thanks. Rich

I always have a hard time remembering pi past 3.14 but this pie makes it easy because I see pictures in my brain, I can look see 3.14159 any time I want.

Here is the proof I was reading: https://mathschallenge.net/full/irrationality_of_pi I have a question about this very last inequality at the end: How did they get that "less than 1" bit? .

https://hackaday.io/project/1279-ramanpi-raman-spectrometer It's a pretty nifty gadget this Raspberry thingy. A computer the size of a pack of cigs. :) And a mass spectrometer... I'm not sure what such a device costs but I'm sure it pretty frigging expensive!

Should one avoid logging into important accounts like Google / Gmail / e-commerce from a Raspberry Pi -- or is it just as safe as logging in from a regular PC? Or, is it actually safer, considering that it is Linux?

What should a PI look for in a physical sciences PhD candidate when hiring? Among diligence, knowledge about the field and cleverness, willingness to follow their boss, complementary skillsets if they are from another discipline, what's your favorite? What else?

Normally you can do reduction formula type questions with I.B.P., but here that just results in something like $$I_n = \left[-f(x) \cos{x}\right]_0^{\pi} + \frac{q^n n}{n!} \int_0^{\pi} \cos{(x)} x^{n-1} (\pi - x)^{n-1} (\pi - 2x) dx$$I can't seem to get anywhere from here though. Substitutions...

The objective: Determine the daily power draw of a Raspberry Pi (Watts per Day) and determine the average daily power generation of a solar panel. Will energy generated be greater than energy drawn? Lets begin, I have a 9 Watt, 18 Volt solar panel. This solar panel is charging a sealed lead...

For a quarantine project I bought a Raspberry Pi 4 and a breadboard accessory kit. It won't arrive for another couple weeks, but I as super excited to dive in. My first project will be to create a simple LED up time monitor for PF :) Anyone have some "must read" tutorials? I'll be using python.

Happy Pi Day: Pi jokes! A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer are all given identical rubber balls and told to find the volume. They are given anything they want to measure it, and have all the time they need. The mathematician pulls out a measuring tape and records the circumference...

How Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm Just a link a friend sent me. I like the simulation videos! Whether it would help calculate pi, I doubt! Just needed a short, catchy title.

The recurrence relation was given as: ##p_k=2^{k+1}\cdot h_k## where ##h_0^2=2## ##h_{k+1}^2=(\frac{1}{2}h_k)^2+(1-\frac{1}{2}h_k \cdot \cot(2^{-k}\cdot \alpha))^2## and ##\alpha=\arctan(1)##. This is not exactly an original or noteworthy derivation, is it? I feel that it's been done...

Hello everyone, I recently derived an arithmetic expression in the following form: aπ² + bπ² ± cπ / dπ² = 1, Φ³ (4.23606797...) I have two question about this: i. Does this equation/form resemble anything known in physics/math? (it looks like a psuedo-quadratic to me, but unsure) ii. Is...

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-pi-connects-colliding-blocks-to-a-quantum-search-algorithm-20200121/ and related papers: Play Pool with PI (2003 paper by Galperin) https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~lebed/Galperin. Playing pool with pi.pdf and Playing Pool with |ψ⟩: from Bouncing Billiards to...

It is well known that sigma bond is stronger than Pi bond. However in bond energy table that C=O is 745 KJ and C-O is 358 KJ. we can calculate the Pi bond energy is 745-358=387! The Pi bond(387KJ) is stronger than sigma bond(358KJ) ? How could this happen?

Summary: wow! Mathematician and autism-spectrum savant Daniel Tammet counts pi to 22,500 digits.

So I'm trying to put together a Pi Zero mini computer to use for security-oriented applications, for example encrypting/decrypting messages, working with encryption keys, etc. It's cheap, very small and thus easy to carry around. However, I'm not entirely comfortable with the presence of the...

1) If Pi has my birthday digit sequence starting at digit at ~ 200k position (I did check, strange experience), can It also contain digital encoded (Ascii) Shakespeare's Hamlet? or Any other human creation ever done now and in the future? 2) Pi square ~ 9.86960440109 , we can calculate...

Imagine a compass that can move in two ways: 1- Opening it to make a Radius 2- Draw a circle. If we can imagine it going at the same velocity (or accelaration), can we create a phormula of velocity and aceleration base on Pi... and see what it implies?

Since the ratio of perimeter and diagonal in a polygon( with a side number can be divided whole by 2) is a×sin(180° /a),and a is the side number of the polygon. And if we want the number of sides are always a double number we can say that there are 2a sides, and the equation can be...

1)* What are sine and cosine functions called in relation to Pi? 2) What is the exponential function called in relation to cosine and sine functions? 3) What are the other smooth, continual nested (or iterative) root functions (that are similar to sine and cosine) called in relation to...

One of the weirdest ways to calculate pi. Personally think it is weirder than Monte Carlo.