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Happy Pi Day! (Original Post) MrScorpio Mar 2015 OP
... handmade34 Mar 2015 #1
... sarge43 Mar 2015 #2
A day that Republicans can't comprehend because Cyrano Mar 2015 #3
Happy pi day to you, Mr. Scorpio! marym625 Mar 2015 #4
Happy Pi Day Dont call me Shirley Mar 2015 #5
Happy Pi Day Mr. S! treestar Mar 2015 #6
Happy Pi Day! ancianita Mar 2015 #7
Lest we forget how this relates to the idiocy of some in government... eggplant Mar 2015 #8
Pi Day is special this year. Lionel Mandrake Mar 2015 #9
pi are round. nt awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #10
Cake r square. nt yellowdogintexas Mar 2015 #11
too bad awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #12
I like Pi Prisoner_Number_Six Mar 2015 #13
Aw man Yonx Mar 2015 #14

Cyrano

(15,041 posts)
3. A day that Republicans can't comprehend because
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 10:12 AM
Mar 2015

as they so often say, "I'm not a scientist."

I have a superstitious friend who believes that "something big" will happen tonight at 9:26pm and 53 seconds. I asked him why it didn't happen at that time this morning.

eggplant

(3,911 posts)
8. Lest we forget how this relates to the idiocy of some in government...
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 11:55 AM
Mar 2015

...we'd be doomed to repeat* it.

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






*And yes, there's a bonus joke hidden in there.

Lionel Mandrake

(4,076 posts)
9. Pi Day is special this year.
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 01:02 PM
Mar 2015

An American abbreviation for today's date is 3/14/15, which lists the first five digits of the decimal expansion for pi. That won't happen again for a hundred years.

Next year's Pi Day will also be special: 3/14/16 looks like 3.1416, which is the best five-digit approximation to pi.

Europeans are out of luck. Spock would approve of their system (day, month, year), which is more logical than ours. Alas, in Europe today is 14/3/15, which has nothing to do with pi. The European Pi Day will be 3 January 2041 (3/1/41), which captures only four digits of pi.

WARNING: Those allergic to math should not read the following statement.

When Spock said that pi is transcendental, he meant that pi is not a root of any polynomial with integer coefficients.

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