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Happy Pi Day

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the inevitable-number-patterns dept.

I just wanted take a break to wish everyone a Happy Pi Day. It's 3/14, so I hope you are all enjoying your day off, and remember not to bother checking your mailbox.

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  1. And just as important. by barfcat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd also like to wish everybody (and also remind them) a happy steak and BJ day. It's exactly one month after V-day which we all know is for the women. This holiday evens out the universe.

    1. Re:And just as important. by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 4, Informative

      This "holiday" [steak & BJ day?], which does not exist on any calendar...seems sexist and homophobic.

      Why that? You haven't been very often to a gay bathhouse or to a park at night, have you?

      We gays like a good BJ as much (if not more...) than any other man!

  2. Re:Tacoooo by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny

    The cake is a pi.

  3. interesting note: by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Interesting

    also albert einstein's birthday

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

    March 14, 1879

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  4. Re:Almost there... by Haedrian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We could easily extend that to

    3/14/15 9:26:53 am

    And have a real big bash.

  5. belt tightening in the USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    In most states, there are no longer separate holidays for pi and e but rather a combined "Transcendentals Day".

    "Come on down, our prices for this one day event are just irrational".

  6. Re:Is it Twelvember yet? by hduff · · Score: 4, Funny

    For fuck's sake, can we all please stop insisting that a particular arbitrary way to represent dates is better? It's pretty asinine how this gets brought up so much.

    Sure. We can argue over which way the toilet paper goes or 'vi vs. emacs' or any number of pointless, non-winnable arguments that fuel the growth of civilisation.

    Your choice.

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  7. Re:Tacoooo by Sique · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, a pizza with a height of a and a radius of z has a volume of pi*z*z*a.

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  8. Tau instead of Pi... Wait a few months by HizookRobotics · · Score: 5, Informative

    I too was once an ardent pi supporter. However, I have seen the light... let us eliminate spurious factors of two everywhere and embrace a more reasonable transcendental number: tau

  9. We should celebrate Tau day instead by ndogg · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We should free ourselves of the tyranny of Pi, and celebrate Tau.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ

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