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Pi vs. e

Your Favorite Infinite Non-repeating Decimal

Replies: 67 — Last Post Aug. 9, 2006 8:53pm by climber783

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Choice

Votes

Percent

pi (3.141592...)

123

77%

e (2.71828...)

22%

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159 Votes Cast

emmy350

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Pi is soo much better because I use it more, well at least last year in math I used it more than e, and I'm more familiar with it. Pi is also a bigger number than e. Pi has a cooler symbol than e....who likes just an e? I also say that too because Pi does have its own day.

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smartlake

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I like e because it is more useful, as far as relating it to real-world scenarios.

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OpethGirl69

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My vote has to go to Pi. I mean, I never learned about e, I'm in low level math and only going into 11th grade. Besides, Pi sounds like Pie, and pie is magnificent!

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Quote: from smartlake at 2:24 am on July 31, 2006

I like e because it is more useful, as far as relating it to real-world scenarios.

Agreed. Another reason surrounding my preference for e is that I like logarithms so much more than circles. Really. Logs are the best.

I once had this teacher who could recite pi to a couple hundred digits. My goal is to be able to recite e to at least 100 by the end of the summer.

Granted, pi has a cooler symbol, but e is higher-level, to me, and I'm much more likely to be attracted to the e-geek than the pi-dork.

Rayman2010

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Between Pi and e, I think you almost have to choose Pi (because it is prettier), but personally I like Phi best of all, both because of it's uselessness and it's greek-ness.

1.618033988749894848204586834365638117720309179805762862135448=almost Phi

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exparrot

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Pi is the only one with a webpage that has the number to a million places. Plus, the symbol is prettier.

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happygoluckyelf

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I have to vote for pi, if only to honor the pi poster going around my math classroom that has the digits of pi on it, which I idly sit and look at when I really don't want to pay attention. Also I wrote an informative essay about pi for my creative writing class, and it was a complete success. AND (drumroll please)... PI DAY!!!! A day for complete silliness, and dare I say it?, Math fun.

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climber783

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I haven't had math in a couple years, and although I know I've used both pi and e, I'd have to choose pi simply because that's the only one I know how to use at the moment. What do you use e for anyways? I seem to have forgotten.....Math was never my best subject.

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