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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Wed Aug 15, 2012, 02:19 PM Aug 2012

Pi-hundred million people live in U.S.

If you are a fan of the number pi, you'll love this: The U.S. Census Bureau announced that the American population reached 314,159,265 Tuesday.

That's exciting for math geeks because pi is 3.14159265... But it doesn't stop there. The digits continue in an apparently random fashion infinitely.

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Now the U.S. population can be added to the list of pi-related oddities - at least briefly. The government's current population counter was already well past pi-hundred million as of this writing.

"This is a once in many generations event...so go out and celebrate this American pi," Census Bureau Chief Demographer Howard Hogan said in a statement.

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/14/pi-hundred-million-people-live-in-u-s/

I personally don't think this is something to celebrate.

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Pi-hundred million people live in U.S. (Original Post) n2doc Aug 2012 OP
The way congress is f'n up the country can 2pi be far behind? Democrats_win Aug 2012 #1
Well Romney/Ryan get elected I think the population will decrease n2doc Aug 2012 #2
Most of those pi are squares cthulu2016 Aug 2012 #3
.... Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2012 #4
Pi??!!! KansDem Aug 2012 #5
And we became increasingly spherical as we approached that 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #6
kick n/t n2doc Aug 2012 #7
I think the US Census Bureau will take any excuse for having donuts in the office these days. Robb Aug 2012 #8

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
2. Well Romney/Ryan get elected I think the population will decrease
Wed Aug 15, 2012, 02:31 PM
Aug 2012

People dying from starvation, lack of health care, and generally fleeing a failed nation.

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