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10 Ways To Celebrate International Pi Day
We'd like to wish you a happy Pi Day. It may be just as arbitrary as some other holidays (though perhaps easier to schedule than some), but any excuse for some delicious food is one I'll take. Reader alphadogg writes with a few suggestions of ways to take part in this convenient celebration of both rationality and irrationality. (And lead your comment with the number of digits you can recite offhand ...)
Go to bed at 3:08:30 AM, not 3:14:16 as heretics would do.
ID: the nose did not occur naturally, how would we wear glasses otherwise? (apologies to Voltaire)
that's all I got ...
Put a tiger in your tank
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I prefer tau day as it gives me an excuse to get 2 pies instead of just one.
For the record I only know pi out to 5 significant digits 3.14159
Time to offend someone
I can recite all the digits of pi - just not necessarily in the right order.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
(n/t)
The real PI day is on 2015.
3.14.15 to be exact.
Watch Life of Pi, starting it at 3:14PM, while eating pie.
Do I still need to recite them?
Solving Unix problems since 1989...
I wasn't aware that Pi was now defined as 14.3
July 22nd would seem to be a more accurate value for Pi day, shirley?
Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it.
That's the only way! ONLY WAY!
So say we all
This can't be an "International" pi day. It's a US-specific pi day (Month-Day-Year). It might also extend to Japan and ISO8601 (Year-Month-Day).
Little-endian (Day-Month-Year) is common to the vast majority of the world's countries. And 3-14 doesn't exist.
Tau Day
"Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
People from my work bring various kinds of pies from home and we have a sampling at 3:14 in the afternoon. Corny, but tasty! My favorite are the small fried apple pies. Yuuuummmmmmm.
"Oh, thought it was 'pee' day. Silly me. Really sorry about your shoes, ma'am."
Table-ized A.I.
To celebrate Pi day, try performing this division:
4427007044615115050034854648525685871587 / 1409160108506276783085718440252375099653
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Squaring the circle was demonstrated impossible 131 years ago... all you can do now is to walk around the square.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
I found myself checking the time a lot. Perhaps it was the lack of dialog during the majority of the movie when there was just one human. Castaway had a similar problem.
I was shocked to hear Rhythm & Hues who got an effects Oscar for this movie had gone bankrupt. They had a real nice 25th anniversary presentation at 2012 SIGGRAPH.
Perhaps by "easier to schedule" Tim meant that with trick-or-treaters(kids) or various the costume parties, those of us celebrating Samhain have to figure out how to schedule around those things. :-) Cause, really.. I'm not going to be the one to tell the gf's kids that they can't go out in costume, because "your mommy and I want to go do ritual." :-P
Just remind everyone that the volume of a pizza of radius z and thickness a is pi z z a.
Do you recognize this famous number?: 1.3591409142295226176801437356763...
That's right. It's e/2. Why e/2, you ask? Well, let me ask a similar question. Why celebrate Tau/2?
A circle is the locus of all points equidistant from a single point. Circles are defined by their radius. The natural circle constant is the relationship between the length of the radius and the circumference of the circle: Tau. No alien culture is going to be beaming 3.14159... into space. They will be sending 6.28318...
It's no wonder aliens don't want to contact us. We can't do basic math. We must be the laughing stock of the galaxy.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Now as for "Easter", I followed that link and I found nothing there other than some objections by some groups suggesting it had pagan roots but the date is tied to the Jewish festival of Passover. That is biblically established. The only thing you could argue is that name "Easter" may have been co-opted by the church and some of the secular trappings resemble elements from pagan traditions that the church tried to stamp out but the festival within the church bares no relation to the old pagan celebration.
In the end, what's in a name? What actually counts is how you celebrate it and what it means to you.
PS. Christmas means "Christ" "mass" incase you did not see that. It is a celebration of the birth of christ.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
The "e" is silent, right? Then my pi[e] counts too: http://www.jetcityorange.com/pi/pi-crust.jpg
That's as far as I can go. We have a pizzeria named Pi in St. Louis (it's famous because President Obama had one delivered to the White House) and they are running specials today.
I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they get up in the morning, that's as good as they're gonna feel
Pi is constant.
Pie day?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayo9PoZgrMU
I am well aware of the meaning of Christmas, I am not that fucking stupid. Because its not the same day - or name - as Yule, I didn't mention it. Also it has a fixed date. :P
Easter on the otherhand does not have a fixed date. The only reasons I mentioned it is because Samhain has a fixed date, and Easter does not. I also jokingly mentioned it had been coopted solely because of the name Easter which might come from a European Pagan Horse goddess named Eostre and that made it a tad relevant.
My point was that Samhain was an idiotic festival to include as an example, and that Easter might have been a better and more logical choice.
You seem to have missed that though in your zeal to slam me over something I didn't say
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The date notation you use isn't the date notation everyone uses. Also, using the slash as a separator with the year at the end, can be ambiguous on its own, since it can mean dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy, depending on your region. Therefore, you shouldn't base the date of the holiday on date notation. Instead, it makes the most sense to match up larger quantifier in the date with the larger quantifier in the number, so month=3, day=14.
That said, it's just an excuse to make a day more fun. So, if it makes you happier to argue that it shouldn't happen, then it's fulfilling its purpose anyway!
Seriously--that movie annoyed me very much.
For a far better movie about math, watch Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land. When I was in 4th grade, my teacher was sick, so the substitute show that film to the class. I learned more from Donald Duck than I learned in the whole rest of the year. I saw that math could be fun and entertaining, and not just drills and word problems. To this day, I still remember the Golden Ratio, and the Fibonacci Sequence, and how they are related.
FWIW, as requested: 120 digits (was 200 at one time, in competition with a dormmate in college. Hi Rob!)
That experience lead me to question how many digits are useful? Of course, that depends on how you define useful. Computer burn-in testing, theory of algorithms and optimizations thereof notwithstanding, I was thinking more along the lines of physical applications.
Question:What is the largest circular body that I could conceivable try to calculate the circumference of, and what is the finest measurable precision with which I could imagine measuring that with?
Circular body: observable universe : approximately 8.8x10^26m in diameter.
Minimal length: Planck Length : approximately 1.616x10^-35m.
Answer: Let's ask Wolfram Alpha to compute and confirm that for us using: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=convert+diameter+of+the+observable+universe+to+planck+lengths which produces a result of: 5.4x10^61.
Conclusion: *IF* we could measure the diameter of the universe to within +/- one Planck length, then, within significant digits of accuracy, we would need no more than 61 digits of Pi to compute its circumference.
If you've followed this far, I now have a question for you: what is the largest actual number of digits of i you have actually seen needed and in what context?
No mixed-endian dates for me, and most-significant first, please. I don't care how wrong the world is.
As for Pi Day, as a subset of an ISO 8601 date, it's as international as they come, but you already knew that. (Why the vitriol? Did a clown throw a pie in your face years ago?)
The only people who celebrate Steak&BJ Day are those who are too dumb to know it's Pi Day.
Wait for it.
Keep thinking...
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Ratio of circle's diameter to its radius. Yipee.
I memorized pi out to 35 digits back in high school; I wasn't as interested in e, which I only memorized as 2.71828182845904523536
the content of the christmas festival celebrated by bible believing christians has nothing to do with the "yule".
Then what's with the Christmas trees? (Jeremiah 10:1-5) And what's with the "do not open until Xmas" spirit of holding back of gift-giving in the months leading up to the date? Learn why one Christian denomination believes origins matter:
You wrote:
The only thing you could argue is that name "Easter" may have been co-opted by the church and some of the secular trappings resemble elements from pagan traditions that the church tried to stamp out but the festival within the church bares no relation to the old pagan celebration.
In what way are rabbits and eggs resurrection of the Christ? They're fertility symbols associated with Ishtar/Astarte/Eostre.
It is a celebration of the birth of christ.
For one thing, Jesus was probably born in the early fall; the Church chose the winter solstice out of a superstitious belief that he was conceived on the same day he died, and Yule was the closest holiday to nine months after Nisan 14. For another, did Jesus ever ask for his birth to be celebrated? Jesus was raised a Jew, and Jews were far more likely to celebrate a death anniversary: "A name is better than good oil, and the day of death than the day of one’s being born." (Ecclesiastes 7:1) That's why Jehovah's Witnesses, for example, celebrate Good Friday on the eve of Nisan 14 but don't celebrate Christmas. Only two birthdays are ever mentioned in the Bible, and in both cases, the birthday boy had someone put to death as his gift.--Genesis 40:16-23; Mark 6:14-29.
I've written more about birthdays and the commercialized holiday posing as Christmas.
I'm an atheist and I use xmas as a present day.
I'm a Christian, and I don't really celebrate Christmas anymore. I prefer to give gifts when gifts are most needed rather than holding them back for several weeks.
You insensitive clod!
Little-endian (Day-Month-Year) is common to the vast majority of the world's countries.
xkcd #1179: ISO 8601
...when you remember March 14th is also Einstein's anniversary. Of course, the anniversary of a Mathematician would be better suited, but maybe a physicist is already good enough?
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It's American Pi day.
Fran
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Last year on PI day I went out to lunch at 1pm
It took about an hour to eat - I could have film developed or glasses made.
Being Pi day I of course got the wonderful gooey food.
It was delivered to my table at 1:58 so I waited a minute to eat it.
I started at 3-14 1:59.
It just coincindence though.
Unfortuately there are no more Perkins near me anymore. :(
Why don't you guys have friends or journals?
Have gnu, will travel.
THAT's when we should party it down for Pi day.
Also, I'm going to a maker space for the first time to learn about El Wire and scarf me some pie. Yay!
3.141592
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How will I spend Pi Day? Probably by reading the same story from previous years.
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Yeah, Gah! I mistyped a 5 instead of a 2. Fixed, and thanks everyone.
I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they get up in the morning, that's as good as they're gonna feel
Family Guy - The Pi Song
Kate Bush - Pi (short version)
Michael Blake - What Pi Sounds Like
Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Spinning Wheel
Billy Preston - Will It Go Around In Circles
Beach Boys - I Get Around
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Prisencolinensinainciusol. Ol Rait!
And it just happens the subject-line mnemonic is how many digits I've memorized: 3.1415926.
My favorite for inputting an approximate pi into a calculator is the 11 33 55 hack: 355/113 is close enough to pi for most practical purposes: It's high by about one part in ten million. You can check against the above mnemonic: The approximation fails on the eighth digit, producing 9, rather than 6.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
What the hell? An internationally aware website like Slashdot (always one for a good metric flame) has no idea what today is to most of the world? Instead "celebrating" this "holiday" that only makes sense if you use non-SI units?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Don't go to Marie Callender's.
Of course, in other languages this varies
That's one of the problems. The other is that FEB is all hexadecimal digits: 0x27FEB2013 = 10,736,050,195.
Yeah, Easter does not have a fixed date because the festival of Passover is also not a fixed date. Anything else you would like to say genius? I suggest that you read the page you linked to. It explains how Easter, as celebrated by christians, is tied to the Passover festival in Judaism. It has nothing to do with bunny rabbits, easter eggs or any other such silliness.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Yeah, Easter does not have a fixed date because the festival of Passover is also not a fixed date.
Of course Passover has a fixed date: Nisan 14 every year, as Jehovah's Witnesses sing every year at their Memorial service. It's just that the solar calendar used throughout the majority of the diaspora doesn't start on a fixed date relative to the Hebrew lunar calendar under which Passover was instituted.
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Your missing the point that the reason we associate bunny rabbits and easter eggs and all that is due to the original pagan influences for the pagan celebration held at the same time roughly. Thats all I meant by that.
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