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The number is related to the circle as well as the prime numbers.

Its relation to the circle:

The two parts of a circle

that can be easily measured

are its perimeter ( ie: circumference ) and diameter.

If

C = the circumference

the ratio

C
2r

and

d = 2r = the diameter of any circle

IS ALWAYS THE SAME for ANY circle whatever its size!

The ratio, known as Archimedes Ratio, is given the symbol

which means that for any circle

C
2r

To 2 decimals, equals 3.14, and to 2222 decimals, it equals

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808
6513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933
4461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815
2092096282925409171536436789259036001133053054882046652138414695194151160943305727036575959195309218611738193
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7021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787214
6844090122495343014654958537105079227968925892354201995611212902196086403441815981362977477130996051870721134
9999998372978049951059731732816096318595024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188171010003137838752886
5875332083814206171776691473035982534904287554687311595628638823537875937519577818577805321712268066130019278
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0128583616035637076601047101819429555961989467678374494482553797747268471040475346462080466842590694912933136
7702898915210475216205696602405803815019351125338243003558764024749647326391419927260426992279678235478163600
9341721641219924586315030286182974555706749838505494588586926995690927210797509302955321165344987202755960236
4806654991198818347977535663698074265425278625518184175746728909777727938000816470600161452491921732172147723
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3929848960841284886269456042419652850222106611863067442786220391949450471237137869609563643719172874677646575
7396241389086583264599581339047802759009946576407895126946839835259570982582262052248940772671947826848260147
6990902640136394437455305068203496252451749399651431429809190659250937221696461515709858387410597885959772975
4989301617539284681382686838689427741559918559252

which is still only an approximation. An exact value for this ratio

would require an infinite stream of digits! Nobody knows how to do
this, so, people simply call this ratio

7 things about
I. A poem ( or piem ) that helps you remember 3.14159265358979
reads as
How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures
involving quantum mechanics!
II.

355
113

= 3.1415969 is the best fraction involving less than 9 digits

for
III. is irrational, like 2, 3, .. but unlike these numbers, cannot
be formed algebraically
IV. SOME EQUATIONS which will give you to as many decimals as you
like are

= 1

2
1

1
3
2
3

5
4

7
4

1
9
6
5

+ . . .

11
6

. . .

V. Leonhard Euler discovered a weird connection between and the

prime numbers.
This connection was triggered with his 1735 discovery that

1
2

1
2

1
2

+ ...

Shortly afterwards, he rewrote the above in terms of the primes {

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, .. } with

2
6

1
2

1 1/2

) (

1
2

1 1/3

) (

1
2

1 1/5

) ...

VI. Later on, Euler made a connection between and the infinity of
primes as follows:
If p is any prime number { 2, 3, 5, .. } and
s = 1, 2, 3, .. ,
then
1

= 1 +

1 1/p

+ ...

2s

If one then multiplied together

) (

1 1/2

) (

1 1/3

1 1/5

) ...

one would get

1

Zeta(s) = 1 +

...

For the case of s = 1, we have

Zeta(1) = 1 +
=

1
3

1 1/2

) (

...
1
1 1/3

) (

1
1 1/5

) ...

which is the Harmonic Series, which diverges.

Since any positive integer 2 is the product of primes, it
follows that the number of primes must be infinite.
VII. Here is a formula for discovered in 1996 by Bailey, Borwein,
and Plouffe

n = 0

Stephen Bankes

1
n

16

4
8n + 1

stephenbankes@gmail.com

2
8n + 4

1
8n + 5

1
8n + 6