FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for December 10, 2024

if Pete wanna win this he would get out and lock the door from the outside

Infinite + 1 jokes belong in Non Sequitur

Peter is safe, even in the room. To recite pi backwards, they’ll have to start at the end. Pi has no end. Therefore they can’t begin to recite.

IP

I woulda gone with infinitely plus infinity not close.

In the mirror universe, the last digit of pi is 3.

Weird Al knows pi to a thousand places…

How does one recite pi backwards? Where do you start?

Pi goes on indefinitely, but has a beginning. Doesn’t that make it only semi-infinite?

Pi is Pi, no matter how you slice it.

When they are finished, it will be the aftermath.

A silly contest, of course, since they both know that it’s impossible to start.

I can recite Pi backwards, it is IP

They’re being so ______________.

It’s kind of weird that something so simple as the ratio of a circle’s diameter to its circumference is an irrational number like pi. Why has it turned out to be an infinite non-repeating decimal? I feel like that alone disproves any theories about a perfectly ordered and structured universe.

Peter has a point.

Probably funny but way too obtuse for me this early in the day.

They have achieved total geekdom

I am so not close to reciting Pi, backwards or forwards, that the two of you have no chance!

Or they could change their physics reference to where Pi = 3, and redefine everything else…

Infinity and infinity squared – they’re both infinite. Can’t even be compared to each other

A word about the transcendental nature of pi: It’s mathematically interesting, but it’s meaningless in practical terms. Your garden variety calculator gives you pi to way more digits than you will ever need. In fact, no conceivable physical construct or measurement needs a huge number of the digits of pi. Consider the Planck Length, a tiny tiny TINY distance. It can be thought of as the smallest length with any meaning in quantum physics (about 1.6 × 10-35 meter). That’s about 1,000 trillion times small than a quark, which is smaller than neutrons, protons, and electrons. Now consider the size of the observable universe, about 93 billion light years in diameter. Suppose you had a circle that circumscribed the observable universe, and you wanted to specify its circumference with precision clear down to the Planck Length. How many digits of pi would you need? 62. That’s it. Big deal. Keep that in mind when you read about mathematicians calculating pi to billions of digits.

I started out to memorize Pi to some impressive number of digits, but then I realized that for most practical purposes, even 3.14159 is overly precise.

You can get a T-shirt “My password is the last 8 digits of Pi”.

PS2 broken, fellas?

I’m ℵ1 not close!