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Post by Eryx on Jun 20, 2006 10:29:22 GMT -5
I'm sure you all know the scene from The Five Doctors, where trying to cross the chessboard in Rassilon's Tower the Master, First Doctor and Teagan have to cross by working out Pi.
My question is this, can that really be done? Using Pi to work out a route across chessboard? I doubt it myself, but hey I may be wrong.
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Post by tractator on Jun 20, 2006 17:54:31 GMT -5
I s'pose you could recite pi and use each digit as a stepping stone, ie 3.14... means the first three steps would be 3rd tile(row 1), 1st tile (row 2), 4th tile (row 3), etc.
Of course, this falls flat in two possible ways:
a) If the floor is an accurate representation of a chess board it will be only 8 tiles wide.
b) If the entire floor is tiled, where do you start counting from? (left hand side, right up against the wall?).
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Post by Eryx on Jun 21, 2006 6:34:04 GMT -5
A couple weeks back on a nice quiet day at work (I work in a little games store) I put The Five Doctors on the computer and showed a friend who I am slowly corupting to Dr Who. He has the impression that so long as the sides of the board are equal you could use it to work out the edges and travel along those tiles where it would touch. No convinced myself.  |
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Post by davisonera on Jun 24, 2006 11:49:50 GMT -5
I don't even understand Pi so I am not going to attempt to answer this one.
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Post by Eryx on Jun 24, 2006 19:31:02 GMT -5
I don't even understand Pi so I am not going to attempt to answer this one. You and me both. heh. |
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Post by tractator on Jun 29, 2006 15:26:23 GMT -5
If memory serves its all to do with the ratio of radius to circumference or something like that.
Basically you can calculate the figure yourself by dividing 22 by 7. The answer is infinitesimal since you can take it to an infinite number of decimal places if you like.
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Post by The Thinker on Jul 12, 2006 15:27:53 GMT -5
Nyah! It's just not worth thinking about. Leave that to the mathematicians, I would.  Hmm, apple pie.... |
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Post by Ice Warrior on Aug 18, 2006 1:44:43 GMT -5
Can it be done?
In some strange tv magic way, why not?
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Post by The Thinker on Sept 7, 2006 10:35:47 GMT -5
Pi= 3.14arrrgh!
I give up!
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Post by The Valeyard on Mar 17, 2007 1:13:44 GMT -5
If you were a Time Lord, it possibly could be done.
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Post by Nytik on Apr 3, 2007 13:06:20 GMT -5
These are the digits of Pi I can recite to anyone who asks instantly (creepy):
3.1415926535
11 digits...
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Post by Eryx on Apr 7, 2007 14:15:04 GMT -5
Could it be used to work out a path across a chessboard though?
I still think no.
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Post by The Valeyard on Apr 10, 2007 12:15:39 GMT -5
You could if you were a TimeLord used to 4th dimensional chess. The 4th Doctor played a lot of chess with k9.
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Post by Eryx on Apr 10, 2007 15:16:57 GMT -5
You could if you were a TimeLord used to 4th dimensional chess. The 4th Doctor played a lot of chess with k9. As answers go, thats the best one. |
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Post by k10 on Mar 6, 2011 19:25:24 GMT -5
here's an answer: THIS is why you have a whiny tin dog...to get shocked so you can get across a chessboard!
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