What would happen if we find the full value of Pi?

First, I don’t think that we’ll ever find the ‘full value’ – I think it’s been proven to 1.24 trillion digits that it is in fact an irrational number. So I believe that your premise is wrong.

But for the sake of argument, I’ll answer: It wouldn’t matter at all. If it were a finite number, it would be so far down to the right of the decimal point (1.24 trillion digits according to Japanese researchers) that the difference would be so small as to be undetectable.

It might be interesting from a science journalism point of view, but that’s all.

@elbanditoroso Not even a “yay!”?

Well, I, for one, would be disappointed. In my mind Pi is just magic.

According to This they’ve calculated out to 5 trillion, and still going

@Dutchess_III I find it amasing as well.

Decimal-desolation, indubitably!!

We would find the world is not as irrational as we thought.

And everyone would start wondering about e.

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!

It would be cool but insignificant.

Where is @PHINOTPI when you need him?

@zenvelo I heard about e, they called it another math superstar.
@chyna Who is that?

It’s a user @Sneki95. He used to be a mod, didn’t he?

This won’t happen. Pi has been proven to be irrational. Irrational numbers are numbers you can’t write as a ratio (all numbers with ending decimals can be written as a fraction).

As stated, it can’t happen. But as a practical matter the numbers behind the decimal
point have been determined to an extent that it is difficult to pose a calculation involving pi that won’t yield a solution so close to perfect that the difference is meaningless.

So, it wouldn’t matter at all…

Pi is worse than irrational. It belongs to the class of transcendental numbers along with e. Transcendental numbers cannot be expressed as the solution to any polynomial equation. For example, the square root of 2 is irrational but not transcendental, since by definition it is the solution to the polynomial equation x^2 – 2 = 0.

If you could randomly choose a number from the real number line, it would be transcendental with probability of 1. That is because the total length of the numbers that are not transcendental, called algebraic numbers, is 0.

@LostInParadise So, the value of Pi can’t be calculated?

It can be approximated to any desired degree of precision. In that sense it is the same as square root of 2.

It would just be put in the category of a terminating rational number. Duh!

@Sneki95 It can’t be calculated in that sense; it can’t be calculated to a finite number of decimal places. But it can be calculated in other ways. For example, pi is how many times you can wrap the radius of a circle around its circumference.

I think scientists the world over would have a giant keg party.

Why do we all serve Pies in round tins when everyone knows that pies-r-squared?

@elbanditoroso Haha :D I see what you did there!

The fan will hit the shit!

Where was my mind when I was typing that last response? There’s so much wrong with it that I’m just going to start again:

@Sneki95 It can’t be calculated in that sense; it can’t be calculated to a finite number of decimal places. But it can be calculated in other ways. For example, pi is how many diameters of a circle you need to wrap around the circle once.