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Happy Pi Day Doctor Q!
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Pi Day definitely deserves a little more hoopla this year. But if you forget to celebrate, you'll simply have to wait for 3.14 in the year 2115!
I have a friend who took his big annual vacation (always to the same resort destination) on 6/6/06, 7/7/07, 8/8/08, 9/9/09, 10/10/10, 11/11/11, and then 12/12/12. Actually, he may have started the pattern earlier, in 2001 to 2005, but I forget. Once the months ran out at 12, he gave up the pattern, which was a bit of a relief because he could start choosing the season when he wanted to go on vacation, rather than having the date choose it for him!
I don't know. His therapist was on vacation, which she takes every time the day number within the year is a Mersenne prime!
That's the kind of vacation time I could use!
(I think...)
I would suggest declining such a vacation package in favor of something more generous.
Looks like they have a number of alternatives. This one does look like the nicest though.
Edit: Ordered this bad boy
I like that one also. Graphics are conspicuous at distance. But it could spell trouble if I get tempted to rob a convenience store.
Rob a pie shop and you'll be sure to get on the evening news!I like that one also. Graphics are conspicuous at distance. But it could spell trouble if I get tempted to rob a convenience store.
I decided on a traditional pi day celebration. Taught my daughter how to work out the circumference of a circle!
I visited a math classroom yesterday where students were supposedly having pi-related math lessons in honor of today's event. However, a mom had brought in a bunch of pies and everyone was having a great time eating them. I snuck a bite too. So forget the math, just enjoy the event!
I just gave my wife a big hug and kiss for Pi Minute (3 14 15 9:26:53). She didn't mind; any excuse is fine. And the kids are used to me being a math geek so they put up with my silliness.
I just gave my wife a big hug and kiss for Pi Minute (3 14 15 9:26:53). She didn't mind; any excuse is fine. And the kids are used to me being a math geek so they put up with my silliness.
Happy Pi Day! The Washington Post has another article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ages-show-the-beauty-hidden-in-pi/?tid=pm_pop
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ages-show-the-beauty-hidden-in-pi/?tid=pm_pop
I would dispute one claim in that article.
They say:
If pi were truly random, that would mean that the number sequence in pi would never repeat itself, and -- because pi is infinite -- it would contain all patterns in existence. Any word that you can think of, when encoded in numbers, would show up in pi, says Kryzwinski. So would the entire works of Shakespeare, all possible misprints and permutations of Shakespeare, and even, if you were patient enough, pi itself. As Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz writes for The New Yorker, pi is so special in part because it "puts infinity within reach."
I added the bold.If the digits of pi were contained somewhere within pi, starting at the N+1st digit, for some positive integer N, then consider the sequence consisting of the first N digits. That sequence would repeat itself starting at digit N+1, i.e., in the range {N+1,2N}, which means that for every digit in position P the same digit would occur at position P+N. For example, the digits in the range {1,N} would also occur at {N+1,2N}, {2N+1,3N}, {3N+1,4N}, and in fact the range {mN-N-1,mN) for every positive integer m.
Therefore, the first N digits of pi would repeat, making it a repeating decimal whose value would equal the first N digits of pi, without the decimal point, divided by 10^N-1. That would make pi rational. Since pi is irrational, we've reached a contradiction, so the original statement must be false.