Monday, December 18, 2006

[Update] Pi. . . or is it?

I sent a question to the TriMet: MAX place, here's what I said:

I'm from Salem and don't normally ride MAX. That being said, when I went to Zoo Lights on MAX I was very excited to see a certain mathematical number etched into the wall at the underground stop right by the zoo. Forgive me, I don't know the official number/name of this stop except that it's right next to the entrance of the zoo. Here's my concern. A number that appears to be Pi is etched into the wall. It begins: 3.1415926535 -- which is correct, however the next 8 lines aren't contained anywhere within even the first 200 million digits of pi, either as a group of 8 lines or as individual rows. Here's a picture so that you can verify this:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXTQxcwScQUnR2ifcjymJbAITblHKOpQJbSXMuILAF5HEMdhaEuaOeHtvS1dKPs9R0V6Ile7gTY85t0GJUCWLZb6s7rK6q2FTNdVKaY5VKkMn25Cm1IZlXYRRapYpzip-rYp8undrygNq7/s400/Pi.jpg


Here's the website I used to check for the wall-number's inclusion in the actual value of pi:

http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery


Why spend so much time etching a number into a wall only to get the first line correct? I really want to know why, please respond!

-Michael Snively

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