Why is Aronofsky's Pi not Pi?
In Darren Aronofsky's famous and mysterious film "Pi" there are many mathematical secrets. My question is about one of them.
When the film begins one can see the digits of the number Pi. But here something is wrong! The digits of that Pi are not exactly the digits of "real" Pi! Note the following difference:
The Real Pi = 3.14159265 358979323846...
Aronovsky's Pi = 3.14159265 263124534235...
It seems this is not just a simple mistake because "Pi" is a film about mathematics with a strong stress on numbers so every number in it has a particular meaning and probably is a sign for an implicit message. Furthermore many digits of Arnovsky's Pi are true so one who designed the title scene perhaps used a calculator to find exact digits of Pi and then replaced some true digits by fake numbers to produce this "Pi" which is so similar to the real one. Also there is no reason for a mistake in digits after 10th place when you know 9 digits exactly!
Question: What does this difference between the digits of these two "Pi" numbers mean? Is it a message?
Best Answer
No, I don't think that there is any message or meaning to the use of an inaccurate value of ?. I submit that the inaccuracy is simply a result of laziness or small budget constraints. In the provided image, you can make out that Aronofsky's number has been generated (possibly) by his liberal arts college-going nephew who was familiar with the mysteries of Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V. If you compare lines 3 and 4, you can see that the digits 2858286858919431192301402971286501 are repeated on both lines. While I'm sure that there are repeating patterns in ?, I dare say that this is not one of them. Other patterns can also be seen.
The movie isn't really mathematically sound which is unsurprising considering that it attempts to mix Math with religion. But that should also be apparent when one questions what it has to do with ? in the *cough* first place. If my memory serves me correctly, the plot really deals only with the golden ratio (1.618…). IOW, the movie should have actually been titled Phi (?) rather than Pi (?).
So, why is Aronofsky's Pi not Phi? :)
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