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A comment on Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (1959) [video].

Re:Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (1959) [video] by evincarofautumn on Monday November 09, 2015 @08:48PM (#10537110)
The first time I saw this as a young math nerd, I remember being so indignant when the little man said π was equal to:

    3.141592653589747…
Rather than:

    3.141592653589793…
Didn’t they fact-check anything? :) Of course, the voice actor probably just got it wrong. And this came out around the same time as Rocky and Bullwinkle—it’s not as if anyone noticed or cared at the time that Boris and Natasha don’t sound anything like Russians…
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Re:Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (1959) [video] by tennysonmach on Monday November 09, 2015 @10:05PM (#10537372)
If you Google 3.141592653589793 then you'll find it cited as π in plenty of places. I wonder what the cause of the discrepancy is?
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Re:Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (1959) [video] by grapeshot on Monday November 09, 2015 @10:25PM (#10537432)
Looks like it's the result of taking exactly 19 terms of a certain Taylor series expansion for π.
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Re:Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (1959) [video] by DrScump on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @12:05AM (#10537716)
Did you account for inflation?
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