Pi and dividing numbers

[Mac attack]

Someone showed me a website with Pi calculated to a few thousand places. In the sequence of digits there were two '3's next to each other (and later on other pairs and even a triple). Surely this can't happen because as soon as you have a pair together then that number is repeated infininately? Was this representation of Pi a fake?

[Carby]

Pi is apparently an infininate number [edit by ABED] 

[Loosehead]

two or more duplicate digits together do not indicate a recurring number. eg 10.00008 / 6 = 1.66668 the 6 occurs 4 times but not after that, it depens on the division you are doing so 10 / 6 = 1.66 recurring. Also recurrng digits do not have to be the same, you can have cyclic patterns like:
1.234234234234234 for example.

[Mac attack]

Carby - thanks for being a ****. I know Pi is infinate.
Loosehead - I see what you mean. I was thinking that Pi had to had been derived from a fraction such as (but not actually) 22/7. When you are doing division at school and you carry the remainder over then if you get a number that repeats ie 72.654896788 when the two 8's repeat, they will then repeat infinately.

[fo3nix]

No, it can be quite accurate still, as Loosehead says.

There are also interesting places in Pi, such as the Feynman point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_point

[TeeGee]

The odds of getting two adjacent digits the same is one in ten, and of three it's one in one hundred and so on. Therefore in a number of infinite digits there will be an infinite number of identical adjacent digits, not necessarily recurring or forming any kind of a pattern.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

[Loosehead]

Thats the point Mac no they won't , it depends on the number. are you saying that a division sum can never yield 2.887?

try this not easy to show in this window but do the long division for :
17.322/6 = 2.887

It's all to if you bring the same number down and the subtracted remainder is constant the they will but not necessarily. If what you say is true then 2.887 can never be
the result of a division sum!

[Mac attack]

OK I get it. Where I'm making the mistake is because I'm thinking of integers. When you use them you have to stick a long line of zeros so you can keep going which means that you get caught in a loop. Got it. Thanks Loosehead.

[gen2]

How many places of Pi do you want. I think this site gives you the most:

http://3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841 97169399375105820974944592.jp/

[TeeGee]

A handy mnemonic for the first few digits is - 3. I wish I could remember pi euraka!