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Wednesday Is Pi Day

Posted by kdawson on from the secant-tangent-cosine-sine dept.

mrbluze points us to an AP writeup on the upcoming Pi Day — 3-14 (which some will observe at 1:59 pm). The article notes: "[T]he world record [for reciting the number Pi] belongs to Chao Lu, a Chinese chemistry student, who rattled off 67,890 digits over 24 hours in 2005. It took 26 video tapes to submit to Guinness," and mentions in passing a Japanese mental health counselor who last fall recited 100,000 digits, but did not choose to submit proof to the record book.

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  1. Perhaps a typo? by tehSpork · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...a Japanese mental health counselor who last fall recited 100,000 digits, but did not choose to submit proof to the record book.

    Shouldn't that read "Mental health patient ?"

    None the less, that is still very impressive. I wish I had a memory for that kind of thing. :)

    1. Re:Perhaps a typo? by neiljt · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wish I had a memory for that kind of thing

      Me too. Then I could use it for something useful.

  2. Re:To Celebrate.... by cabinetsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    And of course, the best way to celebrate is to eat PIE!

    3.14159265*2.71828183

    That would be the diet version, only 8 significant digits

  3. Re:I live in Europe by Petrushka · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure you do. On the 31st of April :-)

  4. Re:Crazyness by bad_fx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seems quite irrational to me.

  5. Re:I live in Europe by i_should_be_working · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah but the basis is wrong. You can't compare hours, days and months to a base 10 system. Real pi day should be (3.14159..)*(365.25/10)=114 (rounding down for effect) = 11th of March. Hey that's yesterday. Happy belated real pi day!

  6. Video tapes? Oooh , risky by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you image if he gets a mail from Guinness saying "Sorry , you missed the record by 10. Or at least we think you did but tape 26 got chewed by the machine at digit 54166. Bad luck son, try again next year and next time use Memorex!"

  7. Perhaps this kind of counselor ;) by Moraelin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quoth Monty Python, "You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity. You can start in small ways with ping-pong ball eyes and a funny voice and then you can paint half of your body red and the other half green and then you can jump up and down in a bowl of treacle going "squawk, squawk, squawk..." And then you can go "Neurhhh! Neurhhh!" and then you can roll around on the floor going "pting pting pting"..."

    Well, it's one kind of counselling...

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  8. Re:I live in Europe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Europe we can celebrate PI approximation day on 22 July (22/7).

  9. on another note.. by mrsym0r · · Score: 5, Funny

    I feel it's only appropriate to add that march 14th is also international steak and blowjob day

  10. Re:1337 by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've never used just 7 to denote the year 2007. However, Europeans can experience 13:37ness every day thanks to our 24-hour clock.

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  11. Re:Crazyness by suffe · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're imagining things.

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  12. Re:I live in Europe by Asztal_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    No problem, you can celebrate pi day on 31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 058209749445923078164-06-28 :-)