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Happy Pi Day!

Posted by Hemos on from the happy-burfday-to-you dept.

BlueCalx- writes "Today (March 14, 3-14-00) is Pi Day. ticalc.org has a feature on calculating pi and its origins. A search engine exists to search for a string of numbers in the first ten million digits of pi. And of course, there is the first million digits of pi. Eat pie, memorize pi, and watch Pi. I've got my day planned! "

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  1. Re:Yea...but by debrain · · Score: 5
    Both e and Pi are not just irrational, but transendental, meaning they are not the product of algebraic systems, which was extremely difficult to prove. We shan't forget i either, the imaginary number, so aptly named (sarcasm).

    The interesting thing relating them would be:

    i^(-i) = e^(Pi/2)

    Yep. That's just bizarre. Nonetheless pretty much irrefutable in the complex number system.

    (anyone else notice how the sup tag doesn't work?)