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10 Ways To Celebrate International Pi Day

Posted by timothy on from the meteor-tail-pink dept.

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 ...)

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  1. Party! by bidule · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Go to bed at 3:08:30 AM, not 3:14:16 as heretics would do.

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    ID: the nose did not occur naturally, how would we wear glasses otherwise? (apologies to Voltaire)
  2. Celebrate Pi by fustakrakich · · Score: 4, Funny

    Put a tiger in your tank

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    “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
  3. I prefer tau day by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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

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    Time to offend someone
    1. Re:I prefer tau day by iapetus · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I wish I could determine pi
      "Eureka!" cried the great inventor.
      Christmas pudding, Christmas pie
      To the problem's very center.

      Twenty digits (omitting the 3, which everyone can remember anyway), and I find it very memorable.

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  4. I know the whooole thing by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can recite all the digits of pi - just not necessarily in the right order.

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    systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
    1. Re:I know the whooole thing by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Informative

      I can recite all the digits of pi, but only in Indiana: 3.2.

  5. *International* Pi day? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wasn't aware that Pi was now defined as 14.3

  6. Re:Real PI day by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    22/7

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  7. Eating pie! by Zaatxe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's the only way! ONLY WAY!

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    So say we all
  8. *NATIONAL* pi day by ljw1004 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:*NATIONAL* pi day by martica · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "International" means "national" in the US. They assume that anything that applies to them, applies to everyone else, and if it doesn't, it doesn't for a reason that doesn't concern them, being as they are clearly foreigners and are just being different for the sake of being different.

  9. Re:Real PI day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    not exactly