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Golden Key
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Today, March 14th (3/14), is Pi (3.14) Day! And since this year happens to be '15, we also get the next 2 digits: 3/14/15-->3.1415.
Celebrate!
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balaam
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We already get the next 2 digits. We shall be celebrating the mathematical constant by eating meat pie at 1.59 pm. 3.14.1.59.
Unless you use the year and eat your pi(e) at 9.26 and 54 seconds = March 14, (20)15 at 9:26:54
I don't think that can be beaten for significant places.
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Golden Key
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balaam--
Yes, some people are planning celebrations at that very specific time.
BTW, that official Pi Day page looks like it might not have been updated. Maybe it's on Facebook now? Or people can look up other pages. I bet MIT has one. I read they're sending out their admission acceptance letters today. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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balaam
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Just make sure the celebratory pi(e)s are circular. Other shapes are just wrong.
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jedijudy
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Ten minutes before pi here!
3.141592653
Oops, now nine minutes.
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mousethief
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Originally posted by balaam:
Just make sure the celebratory pi(e)s are circular. Other shapes are just wrong.
Don't be absurd. Everybody knows πr².
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Enoch
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Doesn't work here. Our date is 14. 3. 15.
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balaam
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Originally posted by Enoch:
Doesn't work here. Our date is 14. 3. 15.
You'll have to wait till 31st April.
If you apply rounding that is next year, not this.
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balaam
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by balaam:
Just make sure the celebratory pi(e)s are circular. Other shapes are just wrong.
Don't be absurd. Everybody knows πr².
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mousethief
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Originally posted by balaam:
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by balaam:
Just make sure the celebratory pi(e)s are circular. Other shapes are just wrong.
Don't be absurd. Everybody knows πr².
Surely you set that up on purpose?
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Golden Key
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From Mental Floss:
"How to memorize Pi if you're a word person."
Plus assorted fun links.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Enoch:
Doesn't work here. Our date is 14. 3. 15.
Silly person, you adopt whatever system justifies pie.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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I don't think there's ever been an April 31st.
Or, am I missing some joke here?
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Palimpsest
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Stopped by the local French bakery for a tart or pie this evening. They were out.. so I ordered a cookie. Then I noticed it was an iced egg shape cookie, so I had to hold it at an angle to get a circular projection. And the saying is easy as pie?
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Albertus
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I suppose that for those of us who don't use the US date format, and prefer fractions to decimals, Pi day comes round every July on 22/7.
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jedijudy
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To celebrate, I bought a piece of lemon meringue pie at a local chain restaurant which is famous for tempting people with their pastries displayed cunningly near the entrance. They were giving free pie to those with a coupon (who also bought a meal.)
You know that otherwise I would never touch the stuff if it weren't for Pi Day.
Oh, the girl behind the counter had no idea what I was talking about. (Do they not educate these kids now-a-days?) ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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QuakerCub
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a belated happy pi day!!!
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Bob Two-Owls
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As a maths teacher I know that pi is actually defined as a little bit over three. Since a little bit over three happens every afternoon, round about teatime I find it easier to just celebrate pi tea with a fresh pot and a blackberry pie or three.
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Kelly Alves
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
To celebrate, I bought a piece of lemon meringue pie at a local chain restaurant which is famous for tempting people with their pastries displayed cunningly near the entrance. They were giving free pie to those with a coupon (who also bought a meal.)
You know that otherwise I would never touch the stuff if it weren't for Pi Day.
Oh, the girl behind the counter had no idea what I was talking about. (Do they not educate these kids now-a-days?)
Yesterday I stopped at a Trader Joes near a community college, only to find that the bakery section only had stuff like tarts and cobblers left. It was very important to me to have something actually labeled " pie" , so I was annoyed. Then I saw three signs for apple, blueberry, and cherry pie on the bottom row. i gleefully bent over, only to find every little undergrad geek in a twenty mile radius had taken all the damn pie.
" Frozen!" I thought. " Frozen pie counts!" Only it was the same thing in the frozen section.
I finally found a local fru- fru market that had a huge stonking pie display in the bakery department, and there got my necessities. Chicken pot pie for dinner, and blueberry pie for dessert.
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basso
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I had a morning meeting yesterday (8:15!).
A couple of weeks ago I'd asked two friends if they could stop for pie on their way to the meeting. I was actually willing to buy it, but figured the pie would be safer without a bus ride.
They both said that they'd bake pie. And they did. Apple and peach yesterday.
I've got cool (and geeky) friends.
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The Rogue
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quote:
Originally posted by balaam:
We already get the next 2 digits. We shall be celebrating the mathematical constant by eating meat pie at 1.59 pm. 3.14.1.59.
Unless you use the year and eat your pi(e) at 9.26 and 54 seconds = March 14, (20)15 at 9:26:54
I don't think that can be beaten for significant places.
March 14th in the year 15926 at 5.36 will beat it by one. I'll come back to this thread then and say hello.
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Sir Kevin
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I couldn't convey the importance of the day to my fifth graders, especially because it was actually on a Saturday but my wife and I celebrated it! I told my kids that it was actually 22/7 but they still didn't get it! (The student teacher was a bit uninterested his own self even though he was in charge of teaching the mathematics block....)
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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by Albertus:
I suppose that for those of us who don't use the US date format, and prefer fractions to decimals, Pi day comes round every July on 22/7.
Not either/or, but and.
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Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
As a maths teacher I know that pi is actually defined as a little bit over three. Since a little bit over three happens every afternoon, round about teatime I find it easier to just celebrate pi tea with a fresh pot and a blackberry pie or three.
At your feet I learn, oh wise one.
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basso
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Originally posted by Albertus:
I suppose that for those of us who don't use the US date format, and prefer fractions to decimals, Pi day comes round every July on 22/7.
That's a rational attitude.
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Stercus Tauri
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While driving the other day, the odometer passed through 314159 km, which I happily announced to my passengers. They were unimpressed. I did better when I made pizza pi for dinner on Saturday.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by Stercus Tauri:
While driving the other day, the odometer passed through 314159 km
Gives new meaning to the expression driving around in circles.
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Stercus Tauri
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
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Originally posted by Stercus Tauri:
While driving the other day, the odometer passed through 314159 km
Gives new meaning to the expression driving around in circles.
[Miss Amanda will get her wrap.]
HUGE circles! That's nearly 8 times round the world, or about 32,000 trips to the local brewery.
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