But you could never *prove* that the pattern you had found would continue forever... unlike 1/3 where it's quite easy to prove that all digits will be "3".
(Similar to another poster, who mentioned calculating the decimal digits of 1/infinity - they would, of course, all be nought).
And if you really want a reason for calculating digits of pi, I recommend reading "Contact" (a novel) by Carl Sagan. I won't give a spoiler, but essentially: What if we found some pattern in the digits which had some meaning in the context of pi itself? or a message of some sort?
("Contact" does also raise the point of trying not decimal digits, but other bases).
I think you're taking a very strict interpretation of the term "e-mail". It's an abbreviation for "electronic mail", and whether you send it using some internet email client to some.address@some.host or via filling in and submitting a form, it's still email.
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Actually, no, it's 11 times as many as normal.
"100% higher than normal" = 2 times as many as normal.
"1000% higher than normal" = 11 times as many as normal.
But you could never *prove* that the pattern you had found would continue forever... unlike 1/3 where it's quite easy to prove that all digits will be "3". (Similar to another poster, who mentioned calculating the decimal digits of 1/infinity - they would, of course, all be nought). And if you really want a reason for calculating digits of pi, I recommend reading "Contact" (a novel) by Carl Sagan. I won't give a spoiler, but essentially: What if we found some pattern in the digits which had some meaning in the context of pi itself? or a message of some sort? ("Contact" does also raise the point of trying not decimal digits, but other bases).
I think you're taking a very strict interpretation of the term "e-mail". It's an abbreviation for "electronic mail", and whether you send it using some internet email client to some.address@some.host or via filling in and submitting a form, it's still email.
Check that - I believe the thing is several thousands of kilometres across. That means the resolution is a hell of a lot less than 72dpi.