On 3/15/2016 5:22 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
There was an episode of Star Trek where Spock detrmined that the ship's
computer had been compromised, owing to it making the same fatal error while
playing 3-dimensional chess. Spock regains control of the computer by having
it compute the value of pi to the last significant digit.
Significant? How defined?
There is no end. "Being an irrational number, π cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction (equivalently, its decimal
representation never ends and never settles into a permanent repeating pattern)."
Have done a disservice to what Spock actually said/did?
Fact Checker Moose
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What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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