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3.14 essential reads about π for Pi Day ...[HAPPY PI DAY!]
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| March 14, 2017
| staff reporter
Posted on 03/14/2017 2:31:37 AM PDT by Daffynition
On March 14, or 3/14, mathematicians and other obscure-holiday aficionados celebrate Pi Day, honoring π, the Greek symbol representing an irrational number that begins with 3.14. Pi, as schoolteachers everywhere repeat, represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
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TOPICS: Education; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: mathmatics; pi; piday
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To: tet68
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posted on
03/14/2017 4:49:01 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
To: Liberty Valance
Pye-dog says...
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posted on
03/14/2017 4:56:07 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
To: Daffynition
Now that’s what pi is all about
23
posted on
03/14/2017 4:59:32 AM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Terry L Smith
:)
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posted on
03/14/2017 5:01:04 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
To: beejaa
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posted on
03/14/2017 5:01:32 AM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Terry L Smith
Oh now that’s old school and brings back memories
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posted on
03/14/2017 5:02:36 AM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: ReleaseTheHounds
Why?
Has she been that bad?
27
posted on
03/14/2017 5:03:20 AM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Your joking right? That insufferable tripe gave eraserhead a run for its money as worst art school garbage to vacuum away a small period of my finite life.
Then again, to each his own... ;-)
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posted on
03/14/2017 5:27:48 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/14/2017 5:42:40 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life ~ Vote!)
To: Dec31,1999
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posted on
03/14/2017 6:02:06 AM PDT
by
stremba
To: Daffynition
Pi Day is just a commercial holiday created to sell math
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posted on
03/14/2017 6:15:02 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
To: Daffynition
I have a Fibonacci cat.
His name is Louie.
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posted on
03/14/2017 6:25:21 AM PDT
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
To: Nifster
Dear Nifster,
Except for the HP41, no batteries required.
To: tet68
Dear tet68,
As you wrangle for that angle,
I hope the buyers sought what you’ve wrought!
To: thoughtomator
I’m an avogadro’s number sorta guy...
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posted on
03/14/2017 6:45:25 AM PDT
by
BBB333
(The power of TRUMP compels you!)
To: Daffynition
Happy "3.14159265358979323846264338327950288... Day!"
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posted on
03/14/2017 7:22:40 AM PDT
by
Perseverando
(For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
To: Daffynition
37
posted on
03/14/2017 7:26:42 AM PDT
by
Perseverando
(For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
To: Axenolith
WORSE than Eraserhead?!?
Friend I don't know what the heck you're smoking but I want ten pounds of it ASAP!
The local PBS station ran Eraserhead one Saturday night. It's a wonder they didn't scare away all the contributions for the next year.
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posted on
03/14/2017 7:48:17 AM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
(The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/14/2017 8:00:41 AM PDT
by
CtBigPat
(Free Republic - The grown-ups table of the internet.)
To: Nifster
40
posted on
03/14/2017 8:33:09 AM PDT
by
ReleaseTheHounds
("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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