Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150314:17:55:00
20th century poo them a started to get into calculating a lot of digits. thousands and thousands and millions of digits of pi. >> i'm curious what kind of practical application this has. for people like me not mathematicians by any stretch, i memorized it, i got it to pass the question on a test. how has this benefitted human kind? how has this knowledge of pi been put into a practical application? >> well, it's a funny thing because you really don't need more than just a couple digits of pi to do almost any math you'd want to do. architects need 1.1415 perhaps. engineers only seven or nine di...
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