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#1 User is offline   kfay 

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  Posted 2008-March-14, 10:14

Happy Pi Day!!

For those of you who don't know, that's March 14th, (3/14 in the U.S.).

I know that for all of you mathematicians on here... this is your favorite day of the year. And while I don't understand your culture, I damn well respect it!

Run around in circles and go crazy!
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Posted 2008-March-14, 10:26

Pi is 3.14159.
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Posted 2008-March-14, 10:28

Pi day is 22nd of July here in UK, where we get the days and months in a sensible order
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Posted 2008-March-14, 11:58

kfay, on Mar 14 2008, 11:14 AM, said:

Happy Pi Day!!

For those of you who don't know, that's March 14th, (3/14 in the U.S.).

I know that for all of you mathematicians on here... this is your favorite day of the year. And while I don't understand your culture, I damn well respect it!

Run around in circles and go crazy!

Today is my son's birthday. Despite my encouragement, he missed 1:59 AM by a little over an hour.
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Posted 2008-March-14, 11:59

It's Pi Day again? Wow. I still like the 22/7 approximation of it. Or if memory serves, 355/113.
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Posted 2008-March-14, 12:00

Yes, in China it's 355/113, not sure how to express that in calendar terms though.
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Posted 2008-March-14, 13:10

In SI (système international and not Sports Illustrated...) it is

3.14 16:01 approx

(The transcendent part is what keeps the French sublime, I gather...lol)
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Posted 2008-March-14, 13:17

i like the pie with an 'e' better anyway.
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Posted 2008-March-14, 15:16

3.14159
Tangent secant cosine sine
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Posted 2008-March-14, 15:41

I celebrated at 1:59 with some Pie....
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Posted 2008-March-14, 15:45

Rossoneri, on Mar 14 2008, 11:26 AM, said:

Pi is 3.14159.

Exactly.
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Posted 2008-March-14, 16:07

han, on Mar 14 2008, 04:45 PM, said:

Rossoneri, on Mar 14 2008, 11:26 AM, said:

Pi is 3.14159.

Exactly.

Wasn't there some politician somewhere (North Carolina I think?) who once tried to pass legislation for pi to be taught as exactly 3 in schools in his state? Han would have gone on amazing tilt.
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Posted 2008-March-14, 16:30

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the drury lessons involving quantum mechanics, and if the lectures were boring or tiring, then any odd thinking was on quartic equations again.

:lol:

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Posted 2008-March-14, 16:34

You mean the Indiana Pi Bill.

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Posted 2008-March-14, 17:23

Now really... isn't e much more interesting than pi? We could have celebrated it on February 7th. Or maybe we could compromise and have the date somewhere in between and celebrate Transcendentals Day?
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Posted 2008-March-14, 17:26

Gerben42, on Mar 14 2008, 04:30 PM, said:

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the drury lessons involving quantum mechanics, and if the lectures were boring or tiring, then any odd thinking was on quartic equations again.

:)

HINT: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795...

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Posted 2008-March-14, 22:53

cherdano, on Mar 14 2008, 11:26 PM, said:

Gerben42, on Mar 14 2008, 04:30 PM, said:

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the drury lessons involving quantum mechanics, and if the lectures were boring or tiring, then any odd thinking was on quartic equations again.

:)

HINT: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795...

Great, now I can finally remember it!

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Posted 2008-March-15, 00:55

Gerben42, on Mar 14 2008, 11:30 PM, said:

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the drury lessons involving quantum mechanics

Freudian slip? Did you mean dreary lessons?
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Posted 2008-March-15, 03:12

jdonn, on Mar 14 2008, 11:07 PM, said:

han, on Mar 14 2008, 04:45 PM, said:

Rossoneri, on Mar 14 2008, 11:26 AM, said:

Pi is 3.14159.

Exactly.

Wasn't there some politician somewhere (North Carolina I think?) who once tried to pass legislation for pi to be taught as exactly 3 in schools in his state? Han would have gone on amazing tilt.

Makes sense, after all there is a reference in the Bible to some wheels whose circumferences are thrice their diameter, so it must be true.
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Posted 2008-March-15, 06:22

Yup, I remember 3 being used as the approximation in the bible.

That said, what I previously typed was from a faculty cheer from school last time....mine was doing 2 maths subjects (out of 4 A levels) and so our cheer had that....Rest of it has faded from my memory already though.
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