Monarch

William Shanks.

"The pinnacle of hand computation of π was achieved in the nineteenth century. William Shanks was a mathematician who spent a great amount of time compiling logarithm tables, prime number tables, and the like; in the days before calculating machines, large tables of such values were essential for work in engineering or physics.

He did try his hand at π, using Machin’s formula, and in 1873, after many years of labor, presented 707 digits of the number.

But π can be a cruel and fickle muse. It was later discovered that Shanks had made a mistake, and that after the 527th digit, his calculations were wrong. Nevertheless, it was the best value of π available until the advent of high-speed digital computers." from here

Nobody bothered to recalculate it for all those years?

Isn't simply that it would seem counter-intuitive to refer to the direction the hands are supposed to go as "counterclockwise." So, simply, we refer to the direction the hands are supposed to go as "clockwise" and therefore the opposite is "counterclockwise."

I would appreciate some feedback from those who have had a look.

Hello everyone, I first like to introduce myself to this forum. I'm proud to be a member of these science foums. (I am also a member of this site's partner site "Rational Skepticism." And I'm one of the Brights.)

I'm posting my own hypothesis on quantum mechanics, it is still very much work-in-progress. I'm calling it "Determined Histories." It is mainly in relation to the measurement problem. The main concept is that wave-function collapse and many-worlds is rejected. This indicates the existence of a "universal operator" which determines the outcomes (or histories) of quantum events. I apologise for being vague, but I've attached a draft paper which gives a better and mathematical explanation. So if you're interested take a look!

Monarch Hypothesis DRAFT.pdf