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03-18-2022, 11:04 AM
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(03-18-2022 10:48 AM)MeindertKuipers Wrote:  This discussion reminds me about an article from NASA's JPL. It explains that only 15 decimals of pi are really needed to calculate the circumference of the orbit of a distance where Voyager (in 2016) is down to an error of about 1.5 inch.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3...ally-need/

Very nice, a real down-to-earth (pun intended) perspective on the issue!

Of course that doesn't preclude us from attempting math explorations, never mind their actual usefulness in the engineering world, though.

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Π day - robve - 03-14-2022, 03:35 AM
RE: Π day - Dave Britten - 03-14-2022, 11:44 AM
RE: Π day - Gerson W. Barbosa - 03-14-2022, 12:25 PM
RE: Π day - robve - 03-14-2022, 05:52 PM
RE: Π day - Dave Britten - 03-14-2022, 06:15 PM
RE: Π day - Gerson W. Barbosa - 03-14-2022, 11:53 AM
RE: Π day - EdS2 - 03-14-2022, 01:55 PM
RE: Π day - Gerson W. Barbosa - 03-14-2022, 06:06 PM
RE: Π day - EdS2 - 03-15-2022, 12:05 PM
RE: Π day - robve - 03-14-2022, 09:35 PM
RE: Π day - Gerson W. Barbosa - 03-14-2022, 10:30 PM
RE: Π day - robve - 03-14-2022, 02:10 PM
RE: Π day - Gerson W. Barbosa - 03-14-2022, 08:29 PM
RE: π day - Thomas Klemm - 03-14-2022, 09:17 PM
RE: Π day - robve - 03-15-2022, 04:56 PM
RE: Π day - ttw - 03-14-2022, 11:06 PM
RE: Π day - robve - 03-15-2022, 12:35 AM
RE: Π day - floppy - 04-02-2022, 11:12 AM
RE: Π day - Eddie W. Shore - 03-15-2022, 01:09 AM
RE: Π day - rprosperi - 03-15-2022, 12:25 PM
RE: Π day - Ren - 03-15-2022, 01:16 AM
RE: π day - Thomas Klemm - 03-15-2022, 07:55 PM
RE: Π day - robve - 03-15-2022, 08:49 PM
RE: Π day - Thomas Klemm - 03-17-2022, 03:40 AM
RE: Π day - robve - 03-18-2022, 01:04 AM
RE: Π day - Thomas Klemm - 03-17-2022, 03:54 AM
RE: Π day - Gerson W. Barbosa - 03-17-2022, 11:39 AM
RE: Π day - Thomas Klemm - 03-17-2022, 12:29 PM
RE: Π day - Gerson W. Barbosa - 03-17-2022, 02:10 PM
RE: Π day - Ángel Martin - 03-18-2022, 09:07 AM
RE: Π day - Frido Bohn - 03-19-2022, 09:45 AM
RE: Π day - Ángel Martin - 03-19-2022, 11:17 AM
RE: Π day - Frido Bohn - 03-19-2022, 01:01 PM
RE: Π day - Frido Bohn - 03-19-2022, 03:13 PM
RE: Π day - DavidM - 03-17-2022, 08:25 PM
RE: Π day - Xorand - 03-18-2022, 03:06 AM
RE: Π day - Steve Simpkin - 03-18-2022, 04:31 AM
RE: Π day - MeindertKuipers - 03-18-2022, 10:48 AM
RE: Π day - Ángel Martin - 03-18-2022 11:04 AM
RE: Π day - Ángel Martin - 03-19-2022, 11:18 AM
RE: Π day - Ren - 04-02-2022, 03:14 AM
RE: Π day - Ángel Martin - 03-20-2022, 07:39 AM
RE: Π day - Frido Bohn - 03-20-2022, 07:28 PM
RE: π day - Thomas Klemm - 03-21-2022, 07:24 AM
RE: Π day - Frido Bohn - 03-21-2022, 04:03 PM
RE: Π day - Albert Chan - 03-21-2022, 10:45 PM
RE: Π day - Gerson W. Barbosa - 03-24-2022, 01:36 AM
RE: Π day - Albert Chan - 03-26-2022, 03:59 PM
RE: Π day - Gerson W. Barbosa - 03-26-2022, 05:37 PM
RE: Π day - Thomas Klemm - 03-21-2022, 05:27 PM
RE: π day - Thomas Klemm - 03-21-2022, 05:54 PM
RE: π day - Thomas Klemm - 03-21-2022, 06:33 PM
RE: Π day - Albert Chan - 03-26-2022, 11:24 PM
RE: Π day - Albert Chan - 03-27-2022, 01:44 PM
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RE: Π day - ttw - 03-31-2022, 02:04 AM



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