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Mathematics can model things that just don't make any sense. Our sensory organs are not equipped to experience fundamental reality.

Precisely. The guy in Pi went crazy trying to perceive the mathematical name of 'god' - I think most scientists working on string theory, the GUT, quantum physics, etc., could suffer the same fate, but only if they're right. ;-)

Offical website of the movie. http://www.pithemovie.com/

it remindsme of the movie PI but in that case, the "complex" system in that case is the stock market.

Cube kinda sucked, but Pi would be up there with the best movies ever made. After that movie the producer (or maybe it was the director~"~) did Requiem for a Dream, and from there he got the new Batman movie coming out. You can just see the budgets climbing exponentially.

Doesn't that make Pi less geeky though:)...

I can't imagine anyone not appreciating Pi as a movie, even if it isn't somthing they'd choose themselves.

Also did anyone notice where LOTR the Two Towers got its theme music from.

...just go watch PI: The Movie, and you'll see. :)

"As it turns out, Pi can be found everywhere, from astronomy to probability to the physics of sound and light. To date it has been calculated to over 51 billion digits, so far with no discernible pattern emerging from its numbers. In fact, the first time that the sequence 123456789 appears, it is over 500 million digits into the ratio. Calculating the digits to millions of decimal places is now used to test computers for bugs in hardware and software (which is how Intel's Pentium found a chip bug a few years ago)." -- from the web site for the movie Pi.

You'd probably be correct if you were referring to this movie instead of this one.

Patterns! Maybe they should get Maximillian Cohen involved!

=Smidge=

www.pithemovie.com

What is the name of God? (cliff's notes for the lazy)

I suggest seeing pi if you like this story.

Great soundtrack too.

Clearly! Does this number have 216 digits? No, didn't think so.

But if it did, it wouldn't be the Catholic Church who gave a damn, it would be Wall Street bastards and Jewish rabbis.

To newbie moderators: If you haven't seen the film, at least ask somebody who has lest you mod me down.

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Yeah, that occured to me while I was posting, but I though I'd just seen Pi one too many times.

Not only is today Pi Day, it is also Albert Einstein's Birthday! Have a Relitivistic Day!

By amazing coincedence, I was actually watching Pi last night.

"12:45, Restate my assumptions..."

A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."

I've said it before, and I'll say it again... Go to your favorite DVD seller and get Pi right now. It's a very good movie with a very good story line. You won't regret it. And what better day than today to watch it. In fact, I think I'm going to watch it tonight when I get home. :)

12:45... Restate my assumptions... Ultra-neat cool movie: www.pithemovie.com

Neither is Star Wars series a real scifi classic nor is it of a particular interest to geeks/nerds unless they are younger than twelve years of age. I mean the episodes IV-VI were passable but the latest LucasFilm production has been such a bastardisation of the SF genre that I felt embarrased and conned with it.

For crying out loud if you have a separate Section for Star Wars instead of a generic Science Fiction one then I demand the following be Slashdot topics too:

• CUBE
• The Matrix
• PI
• Alien(s)
• Blade Runner

Score:-1,Offtopic as there's no other place on /. to say this

Ever seen the movie PI? Watch that and this will all make sense... well, maybe not, but it definately will give you a good headache

Shaft!

I went to Rushmore thinking it was going to be really good (I see a lot of movies--usually one a week and sometimes as many as four or five), but I was disappointed. It was okay, I guess, but it wasn't really too nerdy or entertaining, or anything. Now, what was really good was Pi . Other nerdy ones I liked were Tron, and Good Will Hunting was pretty good, too. I count myself as a nerd/geek, but I don't really care about that side of things when I go to movies. I just go to see good acting and scriptwriting, like in Life is Beautiful, Shakespeare in Love, Buffalo '66, Pi, A Simple Plan, Ronin, and Waking Ned Devine. All these movies have in common is that a) I saw them in the past year and b) I liked them a lot. That's just because they were good movies.