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[sudgy]

Pi, action $3

Begin naming digits of pi until you name one incorrectly. For each correctly named digit, +$1. If you correctly name 100 digits, you win.

-$10 (to a minimum of $0)

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Setup: In games using this, calculators are not allowed within 10 metres of the table.

Hey, I would get +$9 with each play!  Easy win!

[Tables]

Pi, action $3

Begin naming digits of pi until you name one incorrectly. For each correctly named digit, +$1. If you correctly name 100 digits, you win.

-$10 (to a minimum of $0)

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Setup: In games using this, calculators are not allowed within 10 metres of the table.

Hey, I would get +$9 with each play!  Easy win!

I think I'd get +$13. Which really is far too much, Pi is ~3.14 for most purposes, 3.1416 for precise work.

[sudgy]

Euler $P Action

Name digits of e until you name one incorrectly.  +$e^ix where x is the number of correctly named digits.

Clarification: +$i = +P


Good luck trying to get 5*pi/2 correct digits of e to get +P...

[GendoIkari]

Pi, action $3

Begin naming digits of pi until you name one incorrectly. For each correctly named digit, +$1. If you correctly name 100 digits, you win.

-$10 (to a minimum of $0)

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Setup: In games using this, calculators are not allowed within 10 metres of the table.

Hey, I would get +$9 with each play!  Easy win!

I think I'd get +$13. Which really is far too much, Pi is ~3.14 for most purposes, 3.1416 for precise work.

Did anyone else cringe at the "6" at the end there?

I'd have gotten +$120 a few years ago; probably only +$50 now.

[sudgy]

Pi, action $3

Begin naming digits of pi until you name one incorrectly. For each correctly named digit, +$1. If you correctly name 100 digits, you win.

-$10 (to a minimum of $0)

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Setup: In games using this, calculators are not allowed within 10 metres of the table.

Hey, I would get +$9 with each play!  Easy win!

I think I'd get +$13. Which really is far too much, Pi is ~3.14 for most purposes, 3.1416 for precise work.

Did anyone else cringe at the "6" at the end there?

Yep.

[Marcory]

TournaMint
Action $4

You may reveal a Victory card from your hand. If you do, gain a copy of it.
________
When you buy this, reveal your hand. Trash all Victory cards in your hand or in play this turn.

[Ozle]

Pretty sure I can win every time just by naming 100 numbers......at no point does it say they have to be the ones at the beginning....

[Axxle]

Pretty sure I can win every time just by naming 100 numbers......at no point does it say they have to be the ones at the beginning....

Unfortunately there are only 10 digits in base 10 and I have no idea what comes after Z in bases higher than 36.

[silverspawn]

Pretty sure I can win every time just by naming 100 numbers......at no point does it say they have to be the ones at the beginning....

Unfortunately there are only 10 digits in base 10 and I have no idea what comes after Z in bases higher than 36.

buffalo?

[Awaclus]

Pi, action $3

Begin naming digits of pi until you name one incorrectly. For each correctly named digit, +$1. If you correctly name 100 digits, you win.

-$10 (to a minimum of $0)

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Setup: In games using this, calculators are not allowed within 10 metres of the table.

Okay. I'll name this one Bob. And this one is Simone.

[markusin]

Pi, action $3

Begin naming digits of pi until you name one incorrectly. For each correctly named digit, +$1. If you correctly name 100 digits, you win.

-$10 (to a minimum of $0)

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Setup: In games using this, calculators are not allowed within 10 metres of the table.

Okay. I'll name this one Bob. And this one is Simone.

There's the Digit Before the Decimal. Then there's the Digit After the Decimal. Then there's That Third One. There's also That One After the Two, and That One I Don't Know.

Damn, I forgot the rest.

[theory]

Well you also don't have to name them in order.

[heron]

Pretty sure I can win every time just by naming 100 numbers......at no point does it say they have to be the ones at the beginning....

Unfortunately it is not yet proven that pi contains all sequences of digits.

[markusin]

Pretty sure I can win every time just by naming 100 numbers......at no point does it say they have to be the ones at the beginning....

Unfortunately it is not yet proven that pi contains all sequences of digits.

Wait, have they proven that pi is truly irrational, or do we just assume it is?

If a decimal number never ends up repeating digits, then won't you be able to find any sequence of digits if you keep searching?

[GendoIkari]

Pretty sure I can win every time just by naming 100 numbers......at no point does it say they have to be the ones at the beginning....

Unfortunately it is not yet proven that pi contains all sequences of digits.

Wait, have they proven that pi is truly irrational, or do we just assume it is?

If a decimal number never ends up repeating digits, then won't you be able to find any sequence of digits if you keep searching?

It's proven that pi is irrational. However, that doesn't mean that it must consist of all sequences of digits. Look at the following number:

.12112111211112111112111111211111112111111112...

That number is irrational, yet it never contains a "3" anywhere.

[Minotaur]

Pretty sure I can win every time just by naming 100 numbers......at no point does it say they have to be the ones at the beginning....

Unfortunately it is not yet proven that pi contains all sequences of digits.

Wait, have they proven that pi is truly irrational, or do we just assume it is?

If a decimal number never ends up repeating digits, then won't you be able to find any sequence of digits if you keep searching?

There are irrational numbers whose decimal expansions are nothing but 0s and 1s.  In one famous case, the spacing between the 1s just keeps growing each time.

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

More than you probably want to know, but that's how these things are.

[Witherweaver]

Ozle never claimed to need pi to contain every sequence.  Only infinite digits.  Which it does.

Edit: Okay, only for each digit (0-9) to appear 100 times.  I actually don't know if that's true.  But it likely is.

Edit Again: Okay I checked it does.

[Minotaur]

Ozle never claimed to need pi to contain every sequence.  Only infinite digits.  Which it does.

Edit: Actually only 100 digits.

He claimed that he could pick any 100 numbers at random, which is still a lot stronger of a claim than saying that pi is irrational.  I don't know what the longest K is such that every K-digit string has been found in the expansion of pi so far... It would need to be much less than 100, because it would take close to 10^K known digits at the least...

[Witherweaver]

Ozle never claimed to need pi to contain every sequence.  Only infinite digits.  Which it does.

Edit: Actually only 100 digits.

He claimed that he could pick any 100 numbers at random, which is still a lot stronger of a claim than saying that pi is irrational.  I don't know what the longest K is such that every K-digit string has been found in the expansion of pi so far... It would need to be much less than 100, because it would take close to 10^K known digits at the least...

Card doesn't say the digits have to appear as a contiguous sequence.

[Witherweaver]

He could name "0" 100 times and be right.  There are 100 zeros. 

[Minotaur]

He could name "0" 100 times and be right.  There are 100 zeros.

So "until you name one incorrectly" means until you feel like not saying whole numbers 0-9 anymore? :-/

[markusin]

Pretty sure I can win every time just by naming 100 numbers......at no point does it say they have to be the ones at the beginning....

Unfortunately it is not yet proven that pi contains all sequences of digits.

Wait, have they proven that pi is truly irrational, or do we just assume it is?

If a decimal number never ends up repeating digits, then won't you be able to find any sequence of digits if you keep searching?

There are irrational numbers whose decimal expansions are nothing but 0s and 1s.  In one famous case, the spacing between the 1s just keeps growing each time.

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

More than you probably want to know, but that's how these things are.

Ah, that seems so obvious now. I must be too tired to think.

[Awaclus]

He could name "0" 100 times and be right.  There are 100 zeros.

So "until you name one incorrectly" means until you feel like not saying whole numbers 0-9 anymore? :-/

Yeah. You have to be careful though; if you accidentally say the 101th number, then you won't win the game.

[Witherweaver]

He could name "0" 100 times and be right.  There are 100 zeros.

So "until you name one incorrectly" means until you feel like not saying whole numbers 0-9 anymore? :-/

That was kind of the implied joke from Ozle (with the addition from Theory).

[liopoil]

Pretty sure I can win every time just by naming 100 numbers......at no point does it say they have to be the ones at the beginning....

Unfortunately it is not yet proven that pi contains all sequences of digits.

Just wondering, are there numbers that have been proven to be normal? Is normal the right term here?

And although it has not been proven, it is considered exceedingly likely, yes? (not that you can use that for anything of course)