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Happy Pi Day
Jonathan writes "Today, the 14th of March, is Pi Day 2008. Pi Day is internationally celebrated in honor of the mathematical constant "Pi," who's actual value will — now and forever — remain unknown. NeoSmart Technologies has a run-down on the history of Pi, Pi Day, and the significance of Pi and other such "magical numbers" to science and technology. 'Pi isn't just a number that you can use to calculate circle-related mathematics, it's a symbol of something by far greater. Pi is one of many "magic" numbers that are found everywhere — if you know where to look. These magic numbers can't be explained, they just are. And if you use them right, they make it a lot easier to do a lot of really complicated things... In a way, they're a testimony to technology and computers (or vice-versa, depending on how you look at it).'"
... No cake for you!
To post this story at 1:59pm, or 12 hours earlier depending upon which clock you prefer.
Surely 22/7 would be pi day.
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Bask in its glory!
My work here is dung.
Screw Pi day, come on Steak-n-BJ Day!
Sorry, but we missed Pi day by a longshot. Having Pi day on any old 3/14 lacks sufficient precision. Pi day was on March 14, 1592. Pi second would have been March 14, 1592 at 6:53 and 58 seconds in the morning. I'm sure they were partying like it was 1599 on that day.
math? Imperfect? STONE HER
The value of pi can be precisely expressed as 1.0 (in base pi).
This should have been posted at 1h59m26s past midnight.
"Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
The Pi is a lie.
Tomorrow is the Ides of March, where I will pretend I'm well versed in Shakespeare.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
When can we have grammar day? First, it is "whose," as possessive pronouns never use apostrophes. Second, it is not even "whose" because Pi isn't a person.
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None of us are going to be living? Speak for yourself. I just penciled it in the date on my calendar! (I'm signed up for Cryonics.)
-ellie
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Yea maybe you are happy, but I'm 3.14ssed!
Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
Have fun having your mind dumped into the body of a criminal in order to pilot a Bussard ramjet to seed far-off planets with terraforming modules!
Just watch out for the kids when you get back to earth.
Pi = 3.141592653589793helpimtrappedinauniversefactory7108914
I plan on living forever.
So far so good.
at least in the engineering department. We are having pie as a group at 1:59 this afternoon.
BTW, today is also Albert Einstein's birthday.
My favorite part about this pi calculator are the two words at the end.
3/14 sound more like American Pi day. In most other places it is 31/4.
Oh, wait they don't get to celebrate at all!
I'm saving the pie for "pi approximation day" which is the 22. of july (22/7 = 3.1428571428).
Like this guy:
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000955.html
Sadly, I used to live in a state where every day in March was nearly Pi Day....
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(not what Leroy Jenkins actually said, but it's still the meme.)
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The evidence at hand would seem to indicate that your verbage is non standard for a physicist. It fits the template of a pirate with insomnia, though. Without further data I am only speculating of course.
I believe you mean bohred-feet.
Sometimes, life itself is sarcasm...
rj
Don't you just need an irrational number of fingers, or do the fingers themselves have to be irrational, as well?
Many people are known to be irrational, so this shouldn't be impossible.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
What is the volume of a pizza of radius z and thickness a?
Answer: pi*z*z*a
(I probably deserve a pi in the face for attempting that pun. (and this one))
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