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Happy PI Day!
Vanity ^ | 3/14/2010 | Vanity

Posted on 03/14/2010 10:22:49 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

Today is PI day!

3/14

Tomorrow is the Ides.

In Europe they celebrate PI day on 22 July.


TOPICS: Humor; Science
KEYWORDS: 314; math; pi; transcendental
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Pi related anecdotes welcome. Remember, Indiana never officially adopted any particular value for Pi, but became close to legislating one.

Archimedes was the first to approximate Pi as an infinite series.

Johann Heinrich Lambert proved that Pi was irrational in 1768, though it had been suspected to be for a millenium.

Ferdinand von Lindemann in 1882 proved that Pi was transcendental in 1882.

1 posted on 03/14/2010 10:22:49 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
3.14 something-or-other....
2 posted on 03/14/2010 10:24:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Every day is "Pi" day for me.

3 posted on 03/14/2010 10:25:48 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Happy 3.14159265358793.... to you too!


4 posted on 03/14/2010 10:25:59 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Gay State Conservative

You are about at the same level of sophistication as the Chaldeans.


5 posted on 03/14/2010 10:26:58 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Bump for giggle factor.


6 posted on 03/14/2010 10:27:22 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (3V3Ry71N' 084M4 D03z 83N3f17Z MU5l1mz. c01NC1d3nc3?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
In Europe they celebrate PI day on 22 July.

I am not sure I get this. The only thing I can figure out is that 22 divided by 7 is a close approximation to pi. Some other explanation?

7 posted on 03/14/2010 10:28:06 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I wonder how much stimulus money is being spent to take us to 1,000,000 characters. (Cool graph though)


8 posted on 03/14/2010 10:29:45 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
You are about at the same level of sophistication as the Chaldeans.

I'd probably be insulted if I knew what a Chaldean was.

9 posted on 03/14/2010 10:29:59 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
In Europe they celebrate PI day on 22 July.

22/7 = 3.142857..., which is off target. Pi is actually 3.1416128...

10 posted on 03/14/2010 10:30:33 AM PDT by rfp1234
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Bad joke by our 7th grade math teacher:

“What’s blue and is between 3 and 4? Blueberry Pi.”


11 posted on 03/14/2010 10:32:39 AM PDT by rfp1234
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You got it. In Europe they specify dates as day/month, so we write 3-14, they write 22/7. Those Europeens are sooo much more sophisticated.


12 posted on 03/14/2010 10:32:48 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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Thanks for the info. "Top of the Morning to you," "Cheers," "Prost," "Salut" and all those other words they use to mask their true feelings of inferiority.

Thanks again! (Danke, Merci, Danada, etc.)

13 posted on 03/14/2010 10:36:16 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Gay State Conservative
yeah but this is the one to have today


14 posted on 03/14/2010 10:37:44 AM PDT by xp38
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To: rfp1234
Pi is actually 3.1416128...

No. 3.1415926...

15 posted on 03/14/2010 10:38:09 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy (Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
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Pi is actually 3.1416128...

You flunked this test. See post 4 for a closer, more accurate approximation.

I am telling your first grade teacher and you will be forced to remove one of those stars from your forehead.

16 posted on 03/14/2010 10:38:13 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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“What’s blue and is between 3 and 4? Blueberry Pi.”

Not so bad. I chuckled. But then again, I am a simple mind.

17 posted on 03/14/2010 10:39:22 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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That’s number of digits memorized by a human.

von Neumann calculated pi to over 2000 digits using ENIAC in 1949. The million mark was hit in 1973, the billion digit mark in 1989. The current mark in 2.7 trillion digits. Don’t tell Obama what comes after a trillion.


18 posted on 03/14/2010 10:40:20 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I thought it was about Private Investigators. Rockford Files Rules...so did Mannix.


19 posted on 03/14/2010 10:41:21 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Today is also men’s Valentines Day.
It’s not real family friendly but google “march 14”
It has something to do with steak.


20 posted on 03/14/2010 10:41:31 AM PDT by Gun142 (Where Will You Be When You Get Where You're Going? -- Jerry Clower)
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