Math with Cohen and Groening

An anonymous reader writes "While math on The Simpsons and math on Futurama has been covered by Slashdot before, new background on some of the scientific references is covered in a long transcription of A Futurama Math Conversation with David X Cohen and a short summary of a math club talk to Matt Groening and a number of writers from both shows. Some amusing tidbits are on these pages - for example, when the Simpsons writers contacted NASA for the 40,000th digit of pi, NASA actually sent them a printout of all 40,000 digits."

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NASA?

[bersl2]

for example, when the Simpsons writers contacted NASA for the 40,000th digit of pi, NASA actually sent them a printout of all 40,000 digits.

They do know such information is available online, don't they?

Re:Why NASA?

[wfberg]

While the episode aired in 1993, Pi to a million digits was published by the Gutenberg project on 1993-01-01.