The Last Digit of Pi is Zero?

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I think I'm right, but I know there are a lot of intelligent people on the forums who could prove me wrong.

The last digit of Pi would have to be 0 right, because if Pi was just 3.14, you could make it 3.140, making the last digit of Pi 0, right?

I recently had an argument with a friend about this & it has kind of been bugging me.
 
Pi is irrational, meaning that there is no zero at the end. Even if you took th nth digit of pi and added a 0 to the end, it would be incorrect.
 

As much as I dislike most of iasimp's attempts at humor, I think you missed the joke that time.

As mini explained - if you take the first n (any n) digits of pi and start slapping 0s on the end, eventually one of them will be incorrect. Pi is irrational and the digits never end, which means you can never get to the point at which you can throw 0s on the end and have it be the same thing. You can't really generalize anything finite to an infinite scale - it just doesn't work the same way.
 
Can we prove it doesn't end? I just think after looking at the Infinite Monkey Typing Theorem (I think I just butchered the name) it's hard to believe it doesn't end.
 
Pi is irrational, meaning that there is no zero at the end. Even if you took th nth digit of pi and added a 0 to the end, it would be incorrect.

3.14n'0

'=Repeating forever sign

n= all the digits of Pi

Can we prove it doesn't end? I just think after looking at the Infinite Monkey Typing Theorem (I think I just butchered the name) it's hard to believe it doesn't end.

Another debate I had with the same friend.



As much as I dislike most of iasimp's attempts at humor, I think you missed the joke that time.

As mini explained - if you take the first n (any n) digits of pi and start slapping 0s on the end, eventually one of them will be incorrect. Pi is irrational and the digits never end, which means you can never get to the point at which you can throw 0s on the end and have it be the same thing. You can't really generalize anything finite to an infinite scale - it just doesn't work the same way.

I don't get it.

EDIT: Oh, was he being sarcastic? I thought he was just stupid.
 
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Pi is irrational, meaning that there is no zero at the end. Even if you took th nth digit of pi and added a 0 to the end, it would be incorrect.

3.14n'0

'=Repeating forever sign

n= all the digits of Pi

Can we prove it doesn't end? I just think after looking at the Infinite Monkey Typing Theorem (I think I just butchered the name) it's hard to believe it doesn't end.

Another debate I had with the same friend.



As much as I dislike most of iasimp's attempts at humor, I think you missed the joke that time.

As mini explained - if you take the first n (any n) digits of pi and start slapping 0s on the end, eventually one of them will be incorrect. Pi is irrational and the digits never end, which means you can never get to the point at which you can throw 0s on the end and have it be the same thing. You can't really generalize anything finite to an infinite scale - it just doesn't work the same way.

I don't get it.

To make use of your alternate explanation in the form
3.14n0
where n = all the other digits of pi

n is not finite, n is impossible to define in this case; you can't slap a zero on the end of something you can't even define!

There IS no last digit. The last digit is impossible to determine, just as it is impossible to determine what move sequence the last person ever to solve a rubik's cube or nearly identically functioning 3d puzzle will use, because we simply can't get to that last one.
 
Can we prove it doesn't end? I just think after looking at the Infinite Monkey Typing Theorem (I think I just butchered the name) it's hard to believe it doesn't end.

Yes, we did.

I think Gauss, or I don't remember who demonstrated that if Pi was not irrational (it would end sometime) a pair number could be impair (or odd in english I think...).
 
Pi is irrational, meaning that there is no zero at the end. Even if you took th nth digit of pi and added a 0 to the end, it would be incorrect.

3.14n'0

'=Repeating forever sign

n= all the digits of Pi

Can we prove it doesn't end? I just think after looking at the Infinite Monkey Typing Theorem (I think I just butchered the name) it's hard to believe it doesn't end.

Another debate I had with the same friend.



As much as I dislike most of iasimp's attempts at humor, I think you missed the joke that time.

As mini explained - if you take the first n (any n) digits of pi and start slapping 0s on the end, eventually one of them will be incorrect. Pi is irrational and the digits never end, which means you can never get to the point at which you can throw 0s on the end and have it be the same thing. You can't really generalize anything finite to an infinite scale - it just doesn't work the same way.

I don't get it.

To make use of your alternate explanation in the form
3.14n0
where n = all the other digits of pi

n is not finite, n is impossible to define in this case; you can't slap a zero on the end of something you can't even define!

There IS no last digit. The last digit is impossible to determine, just as it is impossible to determine what move sequence the last person ever to solve a rubik's cube or nearly identically functioning 3d puzzle will use, because we simply can't get to that last one.

Well we can't, but it is possible to know what will be the sequence of the last solve...
 
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