value of pi and 22/7

Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 14:49:56 EDT 2011


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Jeffrey Gaynor <jgaynor at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> There are fun math questions, for instance, is there a run of a million 1's someplace in the decimal expansion of pi? Maybe so, but we just don't know, since we've only computed the first trillion or so digits.

Since pi is irrational I would be surprised if there isn't one
eventually.  Out of my own curiosity, do you know what the longest
known string of repeating digits in pi is?



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