Happy National Pi Day!

[WillJ]

Yes, that's right, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter has its own national holiday. It is celebrated on March 14 (3/14, get it?). There's plenty of ways to celebrate, such as eating a pi-symbol-shaped pie, memorizing pi to a hundred digits, or calculating the circumfrences of circles like a crazed math geek.

More information on National Pi Day

So how many of you actually knew that tomorrow (or today) is National Pi Day? And are you actually going to do anything? In math class tomorrow we'll do some special activites (that's how I found out about this).

 

[napoleon526]

I wonder what loser of a congressman thought this one up.

 

[stormerne]

Since the date will be 14.3 (and not 3.14) I shan't bother celebrating.

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by stormerne
Since the date will be 14.3 (and not 3.14) I shan't bother celebrating.

Who says that the day should come before the month and not the month before the day? Besides, the loser of a congressman, as Napoleon put it, that thought of this did the best he could; there's no 14th month.

Edit: Nevermind, you're from England. You shouldn't be celebrating our (keyword: national) holidays anyway, jerk!

 

[CurtSibling]

WillJ,
Calling a moderator a jerk is not always a good idea.

Especially a moderator who is friends with Odin!

I would recommend a swift apology.

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
WillJ,
Calling a moderator a jerk is not always a good idea.

Especially a moderator who is friends with Odin!

I would recommend a swift apology.

Sorry if I offended stormerne, you, or anyone else, but I used a smilie after calling him a jerk. In other words, I was just kidding. In no way do I really think he is a jerk.

 

[CurtSibling]

A jest does not always work with the typed word I guess...

 

[stormerne]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
Calling a moderator a jerk is not always a good idea.
Especially a moderator who is friends with Odin!

Nicely put Curt! On two counts.

 

[SGI Butch]

I hate pi day and all that it stands for. The tyrany of math teachers world wide.

 

[jack merchant]

How come there wasn't a thread about the International Womens' (sp?) day on 8/3 (or 3/8 for you Americans) ?

 

[onejayhawk]

What day is set aside to promote e? It was always my favorite.

J

 

[TubaGuy]

Originally posted by onejayhawk
What day is set aside to promote e? It was always my favorite.

J

We just brushed over e in pre-calc, isn't it like 2.37 or something along those lines. Thats rounded of course.

 

[Bose]

God your just full of happiness and intelligence aren't you SGI B...

go buy a gun or something

 

[Perfection]

6:02AM, Sept 23 is national mole minute!

 

[Ancient Grudge]

hmmmmmmmmm PIE i love pie pie is good ohhhhh i want pie i need pie pie is excellent must go and get some pie

 

[Siegmund]

The significant time on Mole Day ought to be 6:02, not 6:22, I think.

I've not heard of anything special for e -- but I think we just may have found a way to placate stormerne. Pi doesnt work well in British style dates since there is no 14th month and no 31st day in April. But e (2.7182818284etc) has the opposite problem - we can get 3 digits in if we celebrate it on 27 January, but only 2 digits if we use 7 February or 2 July.

How will I celebrate e day? By doing something natural and base, of course! *smirk*

 

[Perfection]

Yeah it's 6:02 I made a typo

 

[Hurricane]

Check out this site if you want to know more than the first 100 decimals of pi. No, first 1000. Or first 10,000... Well, lots anyway.

http://3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209.autopron.org/pi

EDIT: the link is so long that at leats my browser buts in a <br> in the middle of the link. You have to correct it by hand to make it work.

 

[Pillager]

Knew about it? No.
Care about it? Definitely not.

 

[GenMarshall]

Happy 3.14 Day .

Here is a quiz for all of you

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