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How do you calculate pi's in science?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 10/17/2024

pi is an irrational number whose exact value cannot be expressed as a finite decimal number or an infinite recurring decimal. Indeed, it cannot be expressed in such a form in any base (other than pi itself). The value of pi has been calculated to just over 10 trillion digits (as of Sept 2012). See the link to the numberworld site for more information.

There are a number of series that converge to pi.

Some are easy to remember: eg Liebniz's series: pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 ... but they converge very slowly. After half a million terms, you hvae pi accurate to only 5 correct decimal digits!

Others are far more complicated but converge much more rapidly. See the wikipedia link for rapidly convergent series.

For most purposes pi = 3.14159 is sufficiently accurate.

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