1337% of Pi is 42.

[Lizardon]

I think that's pretty funny but here's my question. What sad lonely person was sitting with their calculator and decided to try this? Were they just going through all the interger percentage values of pi?

EDIT: Just did some math 1336.901522...% of Pi is 42.

 

[TheTaco007]

Of course, it all makes sense now! The entire universe must be balanced upon these three divine constants.

Anyone want to start a cult?

Cult? count me in.[sub]see what i did with count ya know and numbers. no laughing?fine[/sub]

More OT well thats kinda awesome.must jump to conspiracys.MUST JUMP.
were does 1337 even come from btw?

1337 = LEET

 

[Plurralbles]

Actually, it's a bit over 42. 42.00309378... If it's not exactly 42, I'm not impressed.

Wait... if one needs to round... then all amount of coolness this could have been automatically disappears.

 

[DracoSuave]

Poor Douglas Adams.. he mentioned in an interview once that he chose 42 because he was looking for something that was not in any way significant.

Hell, I'll go even one further....

...If you claim that 42 is 'the meaning of life', you never read anything Douglas Adams did. It's like the people making jokes about cake who've never played portal, it always seems lost in translation.

God damn it, if you're gonna be a fantard at least be the -right- fantard.

Ahem.

42 is the -answer- to the question of 'life, the universe, and everything!'

What the point is tho is that the answer makes no sense because no one actually knows what the question of 'life, the universe, and everything' is.

Stop failing at misquoting Douglas Adams that you never read.

If you don't know what it is, Google it. 42 is from The Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy and is the meaning of life, according to that.

FAIL

4200/1337 is an irrational number; however it is not pi.

If you believe that a fraction created by dividing one integer into another is an irrational number then you have no fucking clue what an irrational number is.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

"The geek will inherit the world"

More like the universe.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Douglass Adams and 4Chan have formed together into a new religion, who's messiah is a creature of a hundred tentacles and a thousand bizarre jokes.

1337 did not originate on 4chan.

OP: That is so awesome. If we start a cult, count me in.

It didn't? Well, it was a reasonable guess...

 

[oktalist]

I believe that in the show the real answer was 6 by 9.

That was because the Earth had been corrupted by the arrival of the Golgafrinchans.

 

[Flying Dagger]

lol at the people claiming it to not be exactly 42.
What with Pi having INFINITE DIGITS, you can't expect it to be exact.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

lol at the people claiming it to not be exactly 42.
What with Pi having INFINITE DIGITS, you can't expect it to be exact.

Then it's not accurate, which makes this a random math equation.

 

[jmoore4ska]

Forgive me (and correct me if i'm wrong) for it has been years since my last math or science course, but don't sig figs require that the answer to pi * 13.37 be rounded to the hundredths, making the correct answer actually 42.00, and not 42.003093...etc. ?

I guess it would be different if you actually use 1337% and not 13.37, but still.

 

[Naeo]

let pi = 1.14159
1337% of 3.14159 = 3.14159*13.37 = 42.0030583 =/= 42.

Sorry.

 

[Flying Dagger]

lol at the people claiming it to not be exactly 42.
What with Pi having INFINITE DIGITS, you can't expect it to be exact.

Then it's not accurate, which makes this a random math equation.

the point is, you can't multiply pi by anything other then 0 and have it give an exact number.
Anyone who expected it to clearly doesn't know math.

 

[Naeo]

Forgive me (and correct me if i'm wrong) for it has been years since my last math or science course, but don't sig figs require that the answer to pi * 13.37 be rounded to the hundredths, making the correct answer actually 42.00, and not 42.003093...etc. ?

I guess it would be different if you actually use 1337% and not 13.37, but still.

It's my understanding that sig figs only apply to real-world application of math, e.g. chemistry, physics calculations, moving objects, etc, and that when dealing with purely hypothetical numbers as is the case here one can ignore then.

Of course I may not understand it. But using sig figs, yes, it does come out to 42.00.

 

[CHIMP MAGNET]

1337 x pi = 4 200.30938
its all coming together. Quick!! somebody find a number that will make this 42!!

 

[crimson5pheonix]

lol at the people claiming it to not be exactly 42.
What with Pi having INFINITE DIGITS, you can't expect it to be exact.

Then it's not accurate, which makes this a random math equation.

the point is, you can't multiply pi by anything other then 0 and have it give an exact number.
Anyone who expected it to clearly doesn't know math.

That's the point they're making. It doesn't equal 42, which means that this doesn't actually mean anything.

 

[oktalist]

Sorry, this thread has no discussion value.

No discussion value that is, except, apparently, for discussing how it has no discussion value.

 

[Flying Dagger]

That's the point they're making. It doesn't equal 42, which means that this doesn't actually mean anything.

It does to two decimal places. Or Four significant figures.
That's close enough for me to be surprised even if I could explain how it's statistically likely.

 

[hyperhammy]

Somewhere, a GIF of an exploding head shall pop up.

Calumon: What happens when you divide all they by Zero then?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

 

[crimson5pheonix]

That's the point they're making. It doesn't equal 42, which means that this doesn't actually mean anything.

It does to two decimal places. Or Four significant figures.
That's close enough for me to be surprised even if I could explain how it's statistically likely.

But rounding breaks math >.>