Small Maths Problem...need Helps Please

[kevvy]

it is far as you walk to go to the lemon tree to empty your bladder. i remember having ink wells on my desk , did not know what a ball point pen was

[Hedghog]

I have a 12 inch ruler,

Will that help?

[Songhua]

it is far as you walk to go to the lemon tree to empty your bladder. i remember having ink wells on my desk , did not know what a ball point pen was

I seem to remember we had a slide rule and a set square though. BTW, those nibs were great for stabbing the kid next to you.

[KhunBENQ]

So far 3 slightly different answers!

Pi is currently determined to about 10 000 000 000 000 decimal places.
So just tell how precise you need it Edited June 8, 2013 by KhunBENQ

[transam]

it is far as you walk to go to the lemon tree to empty your bladder. i remember having ink wells on my desk , did not know what a ball point pen was

I seem to remember we had a slide rule and a set square though. BTW, those nibs were great for stabbing the kid next to you.

Christ, you made me remember those nibs with the wooden handle, ink wells, blotting paper and big ink stains over my work. Hmmmmmmmmm, todays kids would not believe us.

[weegee]

Do you remember the slate board, and inslate pencil,stead of paper.....ooooops i do.

[transam]

Do you remember the slate board, and inslate pencil,stead of paper.....ooooops i do.

eeeeeeeeeeeer, no, that was the bare feet days, just a tad before my time.

[weegee]

Do you remember the slate board, and inslate pencil,stead of paper.....ooooops i do.

eeeeeeeeeeeer, no, that was the bare feet days, just a tad before my time.

You wore SHOES to school???....

[transam]

Do you remember the slate board, and inslate pencil,stead of paper.....ooooops i do.

eeeeeeeeeeeer, no, that was the bare feet days, just a tad before my time.

You wore SHOES to school???....

Clogs.

[Songhua]

it is far as you walk to go to the lemon tree to empty your bladder. i remember having ink wells on my desk , did not know what a ball point pen was

I seem to remember we had a slide rule and a set square though. BTW, those nibs were great for stabbing the kid next to you.

Christ, you made me remember those nibs with the wooden handle, ink wells, blotting paper and big ink stains over my work. Hmmmmmmmmm, todays kids would not believe us.

Oh yeah, blotting paper. It was good for using as spit balls to be shot at the blackboard off the end your ruler. (My report card always said Disruptive)

[StreetCowboy]

it is far as you walk to go to the lemon tree to empty your bladder. i remember having ink wells on my desk , did not know what a ball point pen was

I seem to remember we had a slide rule and a set square though. BTW, those nibs were great for stabbing the kid next to you.

Christ, you made me remember those nibs with the wooden handle, ink wells, blotting paper and big ink stains over my work. Hmmmmmmmmm, todays kids would not believe us.

Oh yeah, blotting paper. It was good for using as spit balls to be shot at the blackboard off the end your ruler. (My report card always said Disruptive)

Aye good Charles Dickens

[culicine]

You putting a swimming pool in Weegee?

So far 3 slightly different answers!

Pi is an irrational number so there is no "exact" answer - we can just round off to however many decimal places we desire. Not sure why the OP want the information for though. For most practical uses we would just use 2 or 3 decimal places.

[StreetCowboy]

You putting a swimming pool in Weegee?

So far 3 slightly different answers!

Pi is an irrational number so there is no "exact" answer - we can just round off to however many decimal places we desire. Not sure why the OP want the information for though. For most practical uses we would just use 2 or 3 decimal places.

Pi is a pretty exact answer. How the questioner chooses to represent it is his business. If he were to base his arithmetic life around an integral pi, it would make counting chickens troublesome, but c'est la vie as you would say in England

SC

[tutsiwarrior]

we tech students in the late 70s useta wear our calculators on our belts as the case had a loop for that purpose (the Texas Instruments model with the funny display was the favorite but my first one was a Sharp)...all of the cool types on campus would point and make fun of the geeks but we just smiled in the knowledge that they couldn't dream of the money that we would make on graduation...

some underprivileged kids broke into a friend's house and stole his HP 41C programmable calculator and they later approached a teacher in the school yard to say: 'hey, mistuh...dis thing ain't got no 'equals' button...'...the device was restored to my friend and the little rascals then went to prison fer the rest of their lives...

I owned HP calculators since then as by having a 'stack' operation no one ever borrowed your calculator...sorta like smoking unfiltered Camel cigarettes; no one ever wanted to bum one...

Edited June 8, 2013 by tutsiwarrior

[OldChinaHam]

Pi is 22/7, so there isn't any exact answer, but you can get close enough depending on your tolerances.

Pi is not 22//7. Pi is an irrational number, which means that you can't make a fraction of it with 2 integers.

That's true but I remember in high school when we used slide rules that was what we were told to use. Yes, slide rules do date me.

I had a 2 foot long slide rule in High School, with a leather case which belonged to an engineer friend.

A beautiful piece of work in ivory.

I love slide rules, the longer the better.

I also had really short ones.

[rene123]

You guys are a hoot! It's amazing how far technology has come in a relatively short time. I remember helping Dad with his first laptop. Forget about calculators, what about slide rules? It does help to understand maths and have a rough idea of what the answer should be before getting the exact answer. It's easy to make a mistake when punching in data.

[OldChinaHam]

Does anyone here recall the 8 foot long slide rules used in class to teach slide rule?

They hung them up above the blackboards and the markings were large enough that you could see them from the back of the room, and they really worked.

They were made of some sort of metal, probably aluminum.

That was a great year for me when we had Trig and Slide Rule and some sort of Algebra, I forget.

Then we had to be tested to see if we even knew where Pi came from.

Very enjoyable and I wish I could go back and do it one more time.

[Potosi]

Best formula to remember is that the volume of a sphere is 0.5236% of the volume of the cube it would exactly fit in. The real formula is a mess one can't solve in the head without calculator.

[MAJIC]

Pye = 3.142 ,well it did when I went to school.

[Chittychangchang]

it is far as you walk to go to the lemon tree to empty your bladder. i remember having ink wells on my desk , did not know what a ball point pen was

I seem to remember we had a slide rule and a set square though. BTW, those nibs were great for stabbing the kid next to you.

Christ, you made me remember those nibs with the wooden handle, ink wells, blotting paper and big ink stains over my work. Hmmmmmmmmm, todays kids would not believe us.

Oh yeah, blotting paper. It was good for using as spit balls to be shot at the blackboard off the end your ruler. (My report card always said Disruptive)

Much more subtle was to take the inside out of a bic biro then chew up your bullet of paper then when your mate coughs fire at the teachers head!Never caught us and drove him ting tong.

CCC

[Scully]

Just off the top of my head these are the first few accurate digits of Pi.

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286 208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481 117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233 786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006 606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146 951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749 567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362440656643086021394946395224737190 702179860943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132000568127145263560827 785771342757789609173637178721468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923 542019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999998372978049 951059731732816096318595024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188171010 003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303598253490428755468731159562863882 353787593751957781857780532171226806613001927876611195909216420198938095257201 065485863278865936153381827968230301952035301852968995773622599413891249721775 283479131515574857242454150695950829533116861727855889075098381754637464939319 255060400927701671139009848824012858361603563707660104710181942955596198946767 837449448255379774726847104047534646208046684259069491293313677028989152104752 162056966024058038150193511253382430035587640247496473263914199272604269922796

I would go on but I forgot the rest.

[MAJIC]

Thanks fellas.....much appreciated from a OLD man..

Do you remember the days at school where calculators were not allowed. I do.

Yep! and it was only the Grammar school T**** that objected to Calculaters,and years later it was quite heartening to see many of them,ended up working for the local Councils,marching around with their Jobsworth hats on,doing Traffic Surveys,Poll Tax Form Issuers,and many other useless jobs! nowadays many of them are working for Health and Safety and get issued with their very own Clipboard,Pencil and a............Calculater!

[MAJIC]

it is far as you walk to go to the lemon tree to empty your bladder. i remember having ink wells on my desk , did not know what a ball point pen was

We were so poor at my school,we still had to use quills,we wern't too popular with the Swans I can tell you!

[MAJIC]

it is far as you walk to go to the lemon tree to empty your bladder. i remember having ink wells on my desk , did not know what a ball point pen was

I seem to remember we had a slide rule and a set square though. BTW, those nibs were great for stabbing the kid next to you.

Christ, you made me remember those nibs with the wooden handle, ink wells, blotting paper and big ink stains over my work. Hmmmmmmmmm, todays kids would not believe us.

Yea! and how come I always got the cross pointed nib,that ruined my writing,and I got 100 lines homework for bad writing?

[MAJIC]

I have a 12 inch ruler,

Will that help?

Not as a General Rule!

Edited June 8, 2013 by MAJIC

[MAJIC]

Do you remember the slate board, and inslate pencil,stead of paper.....ooooops i do.

eeeeeeeeeeeer, no, that was the bare feet days, just a tad before my time.

You wore SHOES to school???....

Only the top half could be reasonably described as shoes!

[weegee]

You putting a swimming pool in Weegee?

So far 3 slightly different answers!

Pi is an irrational number so there is no "exact" answer - we can just round off to however many decimal places we desire. Not sure why the OP want the information for though. For most practical uses we would just use 2 or 3 decimal places.

The third decimal place is ample for my use....thanks

[weegee]

My goodness....all this to find out what Pi value is.....keep going i am enjoying the laugh

[transam]

Do you remember the slate board, and inslate pencil,stead of paper.....ooooops i do.

eeeeeeeeeeeer, no, that was the bare feet days, just a tad before my time.

You wore SHOES to school???....

Well yeh...................................

We were posh...............................

[overherebc]

Just off the top of my head these are the first few accurate digits of Pi.

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286 208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481 117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233 786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006 606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146 951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749 567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362440656643086021394946395224737190 702179860943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132000568127145263560827 785771342757789609173637178721468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923 542019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999998372978049 951059731732816096318595024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188171010 003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303598253490428755468731159562863882 353787593751957781857780532171226806613001927876611195909216420198938095257201 065485863278865936153381827968230301952035301852968995773622599413891249721775 283479131515574857242454150695950829533116861727855889075098381754637464939319 255060400927701671139009848824012858361603563707660104710181942955596198946767 837449448255379774726847104047534646208046684259069491293313677028989152104752 162056966024058038150193511253382430035587640247496473263914199272604269922796

I would go on but I forgot the rest.

Only did a quick check but think you have reversed the 56th and 57th digits.

A sterling effort though. Worthy of TV.

Two gold stars and a balloon awarded.