On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:17:02 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 15:32:10 -0500, Michel Boucher wrote:
>
>> graham > wrote in news:2F%Mw.13048$pp5.10983
>> @fx29.iad:
>>
>>> A math teacher in Ontario has memorised it to 10,000+ places.
>>> Everyone needs a hobby!
>>
>> My wife's cousin's boy has memorized it to 100 places. He recited
>> it last night and at one point I stopped him and told him he was
>> repeating himself ;-)
>
>I hope he set you straight - Pi doesn't repeat itself. It's the
>ultimate number.
>
>-sw
Neither does 'e', the base of the Nautural logarithm, AKA Euler's
Number:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_%28ma...al_constant%29
Pi and 'e' are considered irrational and/or transcendental numbers. Pi
used to be my favorite number, until I discovered 'e' in engineering
school! :-)
John Kuthe...
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