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You can use only paper and pencil. And infinite time. No other material. And you know math as much as an elementary school student. Can you tell me nearly the exact pi number after nearly infinite time?

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Of course I didn't make my computer to calculate all 4 quadrants. In fact, I considered x-y analitic plain, and only the points from (0,0) to (+n,+n). But this way may require more math knowledge, thus I wanted to tell my method in square and circle way. It got time but I'm happy to manage to make someone understand my simple method. Thanks to everybody.

I am not sure how your method would actually work, and maybe I missed how the points to be considered are generated. You can get infinite points to evaluate by assuming x=1 and y =1 and then y increments such as

1.01, 1.001, 1.0001, 1.00001,.....

As you can see one would evaluate an infinite number of points and get no where near to pi. Help!

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Use buffon's method. You could draw several lines, each line, the length of the pencil apart, throw the pencil on the lines (lots of time, remember we have infinite time), then using the number of times the pencil crosses the line, calculate PI. (

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BuffonsNeedleProblem.html)

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I am not sure how your method would actually work, and maybe I missed how the points to be considered are generated. You can get infinite points to evaluate by assuming x=1 and y =1 and then y increments such as

1.01, 1.001, 1.0001, 1.00001,.....

As you can see one would evaluate an infinite number of points and get no where near to pi. Help!

Consider a chessboard and give numbers to intersection points. How big a chessboard you make, so much you get close to pi. I don't remember precisely, but maybe I had worked on a 1 million x 1 million chessboard, and reached only the 7. decimal of pi. I couldn't understand why you think that I will get no where near to pi???

Use buffon's method. You could draw several lines, each line, the length of the pencil apart, throw the pencil on the lines (lots of time, remember we have infinite time), then using the number of times the pencil crosses the line, calculate PI. (

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BuffonsNeedleProblem.html)

I wrote before about that method. It is a magic way and I like and admire it very much. But I asked a method other than it, by only calculations.

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Consider a chessboard and give numbers to intersection points. How big a chessboard you make, so much you get close to pi. I don't remember precisely, but maybe I had worked on a 1 million x 1 million chessboard, and reached only the 7. decimal of pi. I couldn't understand why you think that I will get no where near to pi???

You can evaluate an infinite number of points within a square a get nowhere as I have shown in the determination of points to evaluate. However by choosing a predetermined sized chess board, and only evaluating the points of intersection of rows and columns I see how it could work. Thanks.

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3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751

05820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067

98214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812

84811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819

64428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909

14564856692346034861045432664821339360726024914127

37245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643

67892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609

43305727036575959195309218611738193261179310511854

80744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491

29833673362440656643086021394946395224737190702179

86094370277053921717629317675238467481846766940513

20005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787

21468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923

54201995611212902196086403441815981362977477130996

05187072113499999983729780499510597317328160963185

95024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188

17101000313783875288658753320838142061717766914730

35982534904287554687311595628638823537875937519577

81857780532171226806613001927876611195909216420198

93809525720106548586327886593615338182796823030195

20353018529689957736225994138912497217752834791315

15574857242454150695950829533116861727855889075098

I got bored of scrolling all the way down to get all the numbers so go to this website...

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I got bored of scrolling all the way down to get all the numbers so go to this website...

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751

05820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067

98214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812

84811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819

64428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909

14564856692346034861045432664821339360726024914127

37245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643

67892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609

43305727036575959195309218611738193261179310511854

80744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491

29833673362440656643086021394946395224737190702179

86094370277053921717629317675238467481846766940513

20005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787

21468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923

54201995611212902196086403441815981362977477130996

05187072113499999983729780499510597317328160963185

95024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188

17101000313783875288658753320838142061717766914730

35982534904287554687311595628638823537875937519577

81857780532171226806613001927876611195909216420198

93809525720106548586327886593615338182796823030195

20353018529689957736225994138912497217752834791315

15574857242454150695950829533116861727855889075098

can only remember 3.14159265358979... phew

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its 3.142857142857142571.......and so on ...after the decimail point the six digits will repeat

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can only remember 3.14159265358979... phew

the link u submitted made me crazzzzy

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its 3.142857142857142571.......and so on ...after the decimail point the six digits will repeat

Yes, 22/7 is a good approximation.

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I still don't see how to do this...but...

22/7 is an approximation but is usually used to make it easier to understand (hearing about an unknown number in grade school was probably one of the strangest things I ever heard...)

Usually, in math (I guess in certain types) you just use the Pi symbol itself, which doesn't give much of an answer.. (but makes it easier to use)

I guess I will have to agree with some others about how it can't be simple division between two numbers or so...

Probably because they will become a repeating decimal at some point (an assumption)

Oh and I find it annoying to calculate any equation with 22/7, since a number divisible to 7 usualy never appears and 22 is a pretty high number...

(That's why I just use Pi symbol, unless I really needed an answer..)

(Then I use a calculator, which also isn't very accurate...)

Truthfully, I do not see how it is actually possible to calculate Pi correctly (accurately...)