7th June 2016
The value of pi is represented as 3.14159 or 22/7. However, pi is a transcendental number, which means that it is a nonterminating, nonrecurring decimal. Mathematicians have used computers to calculate the value of pi to millions of digits. The millionth digit after the decimal has been calculated and found to be the number ‘1’.
11th February 2016
A transcendental number is the one which cannot be obtained as roots of an equation with rational coefficients like, 3x2 + 2x + 4 = 0.
The mathematical constant or Euler’s number ‘e’ and ‘pi’ are examples of transcendental numbers. The proof of above proposition is not very simple, which is partly the reason why ‘e’ and ‘p’ could not be shown to be so respectively till 1873 and 1882. Both ‘e’ and ‘p’ are non-recurring and non-terminating decimals. The values of ‘e’ and ‘p’, correct up to fifty decimal places, are respectively.