Obligatory question... does anyone realize that today, 3/14, is officially "Pi Day"?
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288 is a fairly close approximation, but there are much closer ones.
Check out www.piday.org for details on how you can celebrate the world's most famous numerical constant.
Or... you can just eat pie. But that would fail to recognize the true spirit of the day.
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Ace Cassidy
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03-14-2008 13:15
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03-14-2008 13:20
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03-14-2008 13:23
Obligatory question... does anyone realize that today, 3/14, is officially "Pi Day"? 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288 is a fairly close approximation, but there are much closer ones. Check out www.piday.org for details on how you can celebrate the world's most famous numerical constant. Or... you can just eat pie. But that would fail to recognize the true spirit of the day. - Ace I'd think 3/14/15 would be closer to PI day. _____________________
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Ace Cassidy
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03-14-2008 13:26
I'd think 3/14/15 would be closer to PI day. 3/14/15 at 9:26 will be the official PI minute... A colleague of mine at work and I already had this discussion. Gawd... I feel like such a geek. - Ace _____________________
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Marianne McCann
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03-14-2008 13:35
Obligatory question... does anyone realize that today, 3/14, is officially "Pi Day"? Posted about it elsewhere on these very forums! Countin' down the minutes to 1:59 p.m. SLT! _____________________
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Phoenix Psaltery
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03-14-2008 13:40
3/14/15 at 9:26 will be the official PI minute... A colleague of mine at work and I already had this discussion. Gawd... I feel like such a geek. No, no, no. There was ONE actual Pi minute and it was on March 14, 1592 at 6:53.58979323846264338327950288 AM.  Incidentally, let me plug Patio Plasma's wonderful Exploratorium and The Splo sims, where they are in full scale Pi Day celebration.  http://slurl.com/secondlife/sploland/175/75/25/ P2 _____________________
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Elora Lunasea
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03-14-2008 13:44
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Cunundrum Alcott
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03-14-2008 13:48
Today we should all bury our face in a pie and eat and slurp for hours
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Snowman Jiminy
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03-14-2008 13:57
I note that not a single person mentioned 3rd February, which is natural log of 10 day.
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Rebecca Proudhon
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03-14-2008 13:58
Pi song
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Snowman Jiminy
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03-14-2008 14:01
AND.... LOL... the real Pi day is 22nd July or 22/7, which is much closer to Pi than 3.14.
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03-14-2008 14:02
No, no, no. There was ONE actual Pi minute and it was on March 14, 1592 at 6:53.58979323846264338327950288 AM. Incidentally, let me plug Patio Plasma's wonderful Exploratorium and The Splo sims, where they are in full scale Pi Day celebration. http://slurl.com/secondlife/sploland/175/75/25/ P2 lol "Bonus! it's also Einsteins' birthday." _____________________
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03-14-2008 14:02
AND.... LOL... the real Pi day is 22nd July or 22/7, which is much closer to Pi than 3.14. you and your weird dating system. _____________________
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Sling Trebuchet
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03-14-2008 15:05
Pie are skewered
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Mjolnir Uriza
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03-14-2008 16:58
pi/r squared...pie are not square pie are round
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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03-14-2008 17:23
The farthest I have been able to reliably remember pi is 3.141592653589793238462643. I've managed to remember a few more places but not very well. I taught my kids that value for pi when they were very young, just six or eight or so. I used to keep a piece of paper with the value Ace displayed stuck on my monitor at work for years, in hopes of learning those digits past the ones I displayed at the start of this paragraph.
Pi is nice to use as a password, you just pick out some digits, not at the beginning, remember them, and if you forget, you can look up the needed digits online or back in the old days at the library, in, perhaps, the very interesting Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. I wonder how accurately one can measure it using a circle's diameter and circumference? I recall measuring pi as 3.2, but that was with a piece of string and a wooden ruler with a hardware store's name on it. And a circle, of course. There's a way of "discovering" the value of pi that involves drawing a circle and dropping things around at random and making some calculation regarding the number of things dropped and the number that fell within the circle, or something like that. Anyone know what that is? _____________________
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