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sarge43
(28,941 posts)Cyrano
(15,041 posts)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.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Yum that pi looks good.
treestar
(82,383 posts)And DU!
ancianita
(36,092 posts)eggplant
(3,911 posts)...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)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.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,264 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)my geometry teacher didn't buy it
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)I missed it