The Last Digit of Pi is Zero?

[DaijoCube]

pi never ends, so it doesn't have a last digit.

My fun facts in my agenda book say that it has been "accurately calculated to 1,241,000,000 decimal places".

'Cause we don't know what's next

 

[masterofthebass]

and they say you have to be good at math to solve a rubik's cube....

I consider myself good at math, I was just thinking radically.

you're radical thinking is quite flawed. Adding arbitrary 0s to any number doesn't make it end in a 0. the number 2342313412349012340000000123412348974589234 ends in a 0 digit too, if you feel like adding 0s to the end of it. it can be done with any rational number, so there's no point in arguing this in the way you did.

 

[LewisJ]

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

Uh, logic fail?
How in the world is it possible to know the sequence of the last solve? There are literally an infinite number of solutions to any given scramble of a rubik's cube, and you don't even know WHEN the last solve will be!

 

[Cyrus C.]

Ah, I think I understand it now. But I don't understand "I lied, it's 10."

The last digit of Pi is 10. It's a proven fact.

Did that link clear it up a little bit?

I thought it did, but now you confused me. Was my theory proved or disproved?

 

[DaijoCube]

Ah, I think I understand it now. But I don't understand "I lied, it's 10."

The last digit of Pi is 10. It's a proven fact.

Did that link clear it up a little bit?

It's not a proven fact at all.

 

[miniGOINGS]

I thought it did, but now you confused me. Was my theory proved or disproved?

10 =/= 0, so I just disproved it.

So you understand what I (and many others) are saying?

 

[Cyrus C.]

I thought it did, but now you confused me. Was my theory proved or disproved?

10 =/= 0, so I just disproved it.

So you understand what I (and many others) are saying?

I'm not sure... no. I might as well do it now... :fp.

 

[DaijoCube]

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

Uh, logic fail?
How in the world is it possible to know the sequence of the last solve? There are literally an infinite number of solutions to any given scramble of a rubik's cube, and you don't even know WHEN the last solve will be!

Well, I might create a philosophical debate here. At a specific moment in time, if we could know the position, speed, acceleration, mass and nature of all particle in the Universe, it would be MATHEMATICALLY possible to calculate every single event in the past and future.

 

[miniGOINGS]

If you haven't caught on, the "10" thing was a joke. If you can "prove" it's 0, I can prove it's 10.

 

[r_517]

the last digits of 1/3, 1/7, 1/13 are 0 with your theory

 

[miniGOINGS]

the last digits of 1/3, 1/7, 1/13 are 0 with your theory

My theory, or Cola's? I think you're talking about his, but I'm not sure...

 

[Cyrus C.]

the last digits of 1/3, 1/7, 1/13 are 0 with your theory

Read the link that Goins posted.

 

[r_517]

the last digits of 1/3, 1/7, 1/13 are 0 with your theory

My theory, or Cola's? I think you're talking about his, but I'm not sure...

his

 

[miniGOINGS]

his

Yea, people, one thing to note in that link is:

It does not matter whether the number you consider is rational or irrational. What matters is that the decimal expansion is infinite. Both pi and 1/3 can be written as infinite series:

1/3 = 3/10 + 3/100 + 3/1000 + ...

pi = 3 + 1/10 + 4/100 + 1/1000 + ...

The point of the answer was that if you "add a zero to the end," you are necessarily terminating the series. An infinite series HAS NO LAST TERM. Giving it a last term means terminating the series, making it finite.

Doing this to pi has an even greater effect than doing it to 1/3, because not only does it make an infinite series finite, it also makes an irrational number rational. Every finite series of digits is the expansion of a rational number. Since you agree that pi is irrational, it can have no last term, zero or not.

 

[Cyrus C.]

the last digits of 1/3, 1/7, 1/13 are 0 with your theory

My theory, or Cola's? I think you're talking about his, but I'm not sure...

his

Yeah with yours they would be 10. I get it now. But 10 isn't a digit.

 

[r_517]

as PI is defined as an irrational number, it does not have an ending digit, which means you can't add a zero to its *end*.

 

[miniGOINGS]

Yeah with yours they would be 10. I get it now. But 10 isn't a digit.

If you can "prove" it's 0, I can prove it's 10.

 

[Cyrus C.]

as PI is defined as an irrational number, it does not have an ending digit, which means you can't add a zero to its *end*.

But 1/3, 1/7, 1/17, & all the other numbers you were comparing it to were rational.

Yeah with yours they would be 10. I get it now. But 10 isn't a digit.

If you can "prove" it's 0, I can prove it's 10.

What are you trying to say?

 

[miniGOINGS]

as PI is defined as an irrational number, it does not have an ending digit, which means you can't add a zero to its *end*.

But 1/3, 1/7, 1/17, & all the other numbers you were comparing it to were rational.

It does not matter whether the number you consider is rational or irrational. What matters is that the decimal expansion is infinite. Both pi and 1/3 can be written as infinite series:

1/3 = 3/10 + 3/100 + 3/1000 + ...

pi = 3 + 1/10 + 4/100 + 1/1000 + ...

EDIT: I was basically just saying that it's not 0, because 10 isn't a digit.

 

[daniel0731ex]

*actually, the value of pi changes, so perhaps once in a while it would be a rational number*

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

Uh, logic fail?
How in the world is it possible to know the sequence of the last solve? There are literally an infinite number of solutions to any given scramble of a rubik's cube, and you don't even know WHEN the last solve will be!

i believe that it's just a play on word.