Data visualization of the first four-million digits of pi (© TWO-N, http://two-n.com/pi. Pi illustration Wikimedia Commons)

Ogle the first 4 million digits of pi in ultimate nerd-porn pic

4/26/2012

This image may look like TV static, but it's actually a representation of the irrational number pi (perhaps the only thing we remember from middle-school geometry class). Pi starts off as 3.1415 but goes on literally forever, and this picture shows the first 4 million digits of "forever." Each digit from 0 to 9 has been assigned a different color, and each color pops up here as a square pixel, in order, line by line. Math geeks will be pleased to know that the team behind this image has also created an interactive applet that lets you take a closer look at the number in 500,000-digit sections.

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