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Pi In The 4th Dimension

Posted by chrisd on Thursday July 4, 2002 @07:41AM from the almost-isn't-equal-but-interesting dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Hoy! There is some crazy guy who is all set to prove that the value of the mathematical constant Pi is same for all dimensions. He has calculated Pi for the 4th dimension - and it..it's almost equal - 3.1447817532635 wheras the calculated value of Pi in 2 dimensions (circle) is 3.1416999189943. Math nerds can calculate the percentage error. The project is on SourceForge.net and they even have an online version "

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Re:Pi in the 4th dimension? by MindStalker · 2002-07-04 08:19 · Score: 1, Redundant

Well surface area of a sphere is S=(4/3)pi(r^3)
so that means pi=S/r^3(3/4)
But its the same pi but it you have to modify it with a 4/3 and I'm sure you could expand it another
dimension and you'd need a different modifier, don't feel like calculating it right now, but I don't see any reason to think the actual value of pi would ever change.