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Happy Pi Day!

Postby Richard K Niner » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:02 pm

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(Well, it works if you use the mm.dd date format.)
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Postby Tavis » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:20 pm

Ooh! I almost missed it again this year!

I recall that the folks at ticalc.org go nuts on that day. It has quite the fanbase among calculator nerds.

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Postby Richard K Niner » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:30 pm

I remember a couple of years ago, a camera crew came over here from another university to make a documentary about Pi Day. Basically, we celebrate by getting the Dean to serve the entire university pumpkin pie at 1:59, and hold a Pi recitation competition (Whoever can recite the most consecutive digits from Pi, starting at the beginning, wins a prize)
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Postby Bocaj Claw » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:09 am

At my middle school we used to celebrate pi day by being forced to buy this little mini pies...
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Postby Arloest » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:19 am

I, uh, never heard of Pi day before now.

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Postby likeafox » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:39 am

I wonder if the google logo will pick up a pie for one of the o's. They seem to have a special logo for everything these days.

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Postby Richard K Niner » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:45 am

For some reason, I doubt that will happen this year - they've got a special logo up today, and I rarely see them celebrate two consecutive days (outside the Olympics, which are done for the year).
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Postby Antoine Bruce » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:52 am

Everyone who cares has probably seen this, but I might as well throw it out there anyway...

http://learnpi.ytmnd.com/

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Postby Glenn565 » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:08 am

Everyone who cares has probably seen this, but I might as well throw it out there anyway...

http://learnpi.ytmnd.com/
...Wow.

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Postby Burning Sheep Productions » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:48 am

Yay for oh wonderful pi.
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Postby Muninn » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:25 am

I admit I've never heard of this until today.

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Postby Like_D00D » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:24 pm

A couple of my friends and I were talking about it yesterday and how we were going to celebrate it. Yay for pi(e?)!

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Postby Rooster » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:17 pm

Is this like Pancake day?

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Postby Richard K Niner » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:04 pm

I've never heard of Pancake day.

Pi day is the exact day of the year in which, as least in mm.dd format, the date is the value of Pi to two decimal places. It is celebrated by eating pie at 1:59 (because pi = 3.14159...).

As an interesting, yet unrelated, coincidence, it is also the birthday of Albert Einstein. Image
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Postby Rooster » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:17 pm

So it's a math thing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_Day Pancake Day[/url]


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