For Gens eyes only...

[toughb]

 

[Twinklegirl]

Gen must have liked this. She read it 77 times so far!

It is cute btw.

 

[genintoronto]

Something must be getting lost in the translation. I sense that there is some sort of joke here, but I really don't get it. I don't get Twinklegirl's comment either. Maybe I'm just really slow today? I blame it on the Molly Effect.

Will someone enlighten me please?

 

[gramage]

I get half of it, you cannot have the square root of negative one, so it isn't a real number, not sure why pi is irrational, maybe just because it's a never ending number?

 

[calloway]

Will someone enlighten me please?

 

[genintoronto]

OK. I got that much as well. But what does it have to do with me?

And I got Twinklegirl's comment (number of people who viewed the thread -- duh).

 

[gramage]

Maybe toughb thought you were the only one here who would appreciate math humour?

 

[genintoronto]

Maybe toughb thought you were the only one here who would appreciate math humour?

Geez. I'm not a number person, isn't that obvious?

 

[benstt]

I get half of it, you cannot have the square root of negative one, so it isn't a real number, not sure why pi is irrational, maybe just because it's a never ending number?

If I recall, irrational numbers like pi are called that because they don't have an equivalent x/y form. Eg 0.6666666.... is an infinite number, but called rational because it is the same as 2/3. There's no x/y division that equals pi.

 

[Anynym]

I get half of it, you cannot have the square root of negative one, so it isn't a real number, not sure why pi is irrational, maybe just because it's a never ending number?

The square root of negative one is referred to as an Imaginary (or non-Real) number. (Note that if you multiply the square root of negative one by itself, you get negative one.)

Rational numbers are those number which can be expressed as a fraction with integers in the numerator and the denominator. When expressed in a decimal form, they always end in a repeating sequence of digits, or a finite number of digits. Pi is considered an Irrational Number because the digits never form a repeating sequence, and consist of an infinite number of digits.

 

[Anynym]

If I recall, irrational numbers like pi are called that because they don't have an equivalent x/y form. Eg 0.6666666.... is an infinite number, but called rational because it is the same as 2/3. There's no x/y division that equals pi.

Close - there must be an x and y which are both integers for it to be considered Rational.

 

[Liber Pater]

Close - there must be an x and y which are both integers for it to be considered Rational.

Wikipedia:

In mathematics, an irrational number is any real number that is not a rational number—that is, it is a number which cannot be expressed as a fraction m/n, where m and n are integers, with n non-zero. Informally, this means numbers that cannot be represented as simple fractions. Equivalently, irrational numbers are real numbers that cannot be represented as terminating or repeating decimals, and this presentation is often used in textbooks in elementary mathematics. As a consequence of Cantor's proof that the real numbers are uncountable (and the rationals countable) it follows that almost all real numbers are irrational. Perhaps the best-known irrational numbers are π, e and √2.[

 

[moresex4me]

Or maybe we just haven't found what that pattern is with Pi. Maybe it's just a very, very long pattern... Go ahead, prove me wrong! heh, heh, heh...

And I was also confused why it was for Gen... I didn't think she was into math.

 

[WhaWhaWha]

I'm very interested in Gen's Pi

 

[genintoronto]

Wikipedia:

In mathematics, an irrational number is any real number that is not a rational number—that is, it is a number which cannot be expressed as a fraction m/n, where m and n are integers, with n non-zero. Informally, this means numbers that cannot be represented as simple fractions. Equivalently, irrational numbers are real numbers that cannot be represented as terminating or repeating decimals, and this presentation is often used in textbooks in elementary mathematics. As a consequence of Cantor's proof that the real numbers are uncountable (and the rationals countable) it follows that almost all real numbers are irrational. Perhaps the best-known irrational numbers are π, e and √2.[

Thanks Terb and Wikipedia. I'll go to bed smarter tonight.

Still doesn't explain what I have to do with this.

 

[Liber Pater]

I know I was not rational when I got close to Gen's Pi. I could have stayed there for eternity.

 

[Amanda_kirby]

Call me a huge nerd, but I think it's quite a punny gif. Also not sure why toughb dedicated it to Gen, but at least he shared it with the rest of us...

Amanda

 

[genintoronto]

Great. Now you guys are talking about doing stuff to my Pi, and I don't even know where it is.

 

[moresex4me]

Great. Now you guys are talking about doing stuff to my Pi, and I don't even know where it is.

I can show you...

 

[LadyTY2Uall]

I think it was his way of proving to us what a bunch of nosy bastards we all are.....the title did say For Gens eyes only