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Happy Pi Day!

SilentPanda

SilentPanda

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Can't believe Doctor Q didn't post this already but...

Happy 3.14! Although maybe he was waiting for the 159........ Who knows with Q... 😀

Sorry if you live in one of those dd/mm/yy places. I do think it makes more sense but... what can you do in the bamboo forest?

Now go eat pie!

Edit:

Looks like Q already put it in the 3 4 5 6 7 8 thread... drat.
 
daveway00 said:
Sorry, for a second there I felt dumb. Can you please explain? 🙂
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Pi is (roughly) 3.141592653... today is 3/14.

I wonder if anything important happened at 3/14 1:59:26.53?
 
daveway00 said:
Sorry, for a second there I felt dumb. Can you please explain? 🙂
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Sure, it's just that the value of the constant pi is 3.14159...

Therefore, today, 3/14, is pi day. Now, if the year were 2015, it would be even better, then you could have 3/14/15 9:26:53.59. That would approximate pi within 1/10^12 (wow!).
 
daveway00 said:
Sorry, for a second there I felt dumb. Can you please explain? 🙂
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Pi = 3.14159...., or 3.14 for short. Or March 14th - 3.14, hence Pi Day.

In honor of Pi day, I like to

- have circular arguments
- eat only round or spherical objects
- drink only beverages out of cylindrical containers
- refuse to eat "3 square meals" or adhere to the "food pyramid"

😀
 
daveway00 said:
I always knew Pi as 3.14 not 3/14. 😱
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You raise a good point; July 22 (22/7 for our friends across the pond) should also be celebrated, as it is the fractional approximation of pi.
 
clayjohanson said:
I wonder if anything important happened at 3/14 1:59:26.53?
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Well, Doctor Q is on the west coast, so perhaps he can find a roundabout way of making something happen at that time (PST).
 
emw said:
Well, Doctor Q is on the west coast, so perhaps he can find a roundabout way of making something happen at that time (PST).
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emw, this is totally unrelated, but your basketball team massacred us three times (well, twice, it was just a slaughter, one was truly a massacre). However, we're still better than you at making fun of half-time shows. Did you see the column in the Daily Northwestern? Oh, Nick Collins, such a funny sports columnist.
 
themadchemist said:
Did you see the column in the Daily Northwestern? Oh, Nick Collins, such a funny sports columnist.
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No, but if you post a link, I'll go read it!
 
emw said:
Pi = 3.14159...., or 3.14 for short. Or March 14th - 3.14, hence Pi Day.
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Not if you're in the UK (or any other country that writes dates as dd/mm/yy). Guess we'll have to do a Homer Simpson-esque "make up a month" moment - 3rd of Februaugust anybody? 😀

Ah well, maybe just a 22nd of July day then... 🙁
 
themadchemist said:
Ok, ok, but for fear of hijacking this thread, I'll post it in a new one...
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Just post it in one of the current NCAA basketball threads. I believe there are about 3.14159 of them currently active. 😉
 
MOFS said:
Not if you're in the UK (or any other country that writes dates as dd/mm/yy). Guess we'll have to do a Homer Simpson-esque "make up a month" moment - 3rd of Februaugust anybody? 😀

Ah well, maybe just a 22nd of July day then... 🙁
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Ah, we're just manipulating the way we write dates or times or whatever to squeeze it into what we want. Very few people that I know right dates with decimal points in the first place. Besides, don't you write 3.14 as 3,14?
 
emw said:
In honor of Pi day, I like to
- eat only round or spherical objects
- drink only beverages out of cylindrical containers
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I had spaghetti and home made meatballs (not entirely round, but still...)

Don't know, but I haven't seen anything but round (cylidrical) glasses since the 70's... 😉
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Don't know, but I haven't seen anything but round (cylidrical) glasses since the 70's... 😉
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Man, I can't get away with anything! 😀

I was thinking cylindrical along the lines of, say, a can of beer, as opposed to a carton of milk. And don't tell me you never drink right from the carton... 😛
 
Click here if you've ever wondered what 2,097,152 (958 pages) of pi looks like. 😀

It took me about 2.5 minutes to crunch that on a G3 400MHz. 😎 I make no claims of its accuracy.
 
emw said:
Ah, we're just manipulating the way we write dates or times or whatever to squeeze it into what we want. Very few people that I know right dates with decimal points in the first place. Besides, don't you write 3.14 as 3,14?
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Nah thats the French. And 22/07/2005 would obviously work (moins the year) because (as I'm sure you know) "/" = divide! 3/14 never works...
 
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