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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.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
3.14 something-or-other....
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:24:08 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Every day is "Pi" day for me.
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:25:48 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Happy 3.14159265358793.... to you too!
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:25:59 AM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: Gay State Conservative
You are about at the same level of sophistication as the Chaldeans.
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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.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:27:22 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(3V3Ry71N' 084M4 D03z 83N3f17Z MU5l1mz. c01NC1d3nc3?)
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?
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:28:06 AM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I wonder how much stimulus money is being spent to take us to 1,000,000 characters. (Cool graph though)
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:29:45 AM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
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.
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:29:59 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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...
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:30:33 AM PDT
by
rfp1234
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Bad joke by our 7th grade math teacher:
“What’s blue and is between 3 and 4? Blueberry Pi.”
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:32:39 AM PDT
by
rfp1234
To: mlocher
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.
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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.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
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.)
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:36:16 AM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: Gay State Conservative
yeah but this is the one to have today
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:37:44 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: rfp1234
Pi is actually 3.1416128... No. 3.1415926...
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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.)
To: rfp1234
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.
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:38:13 AM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: rfp1234
“What’s blue and is between 3 and 4? Blueberry Pi.”Not so bad. I chuckled. But then again, I am a simple mind.
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:39:22 AM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: mlocher
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.
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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.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I thought it was about Private Investigators. Rockford Files Rules...so did Mannix.
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posted on
03/14/2010 10:41:21 AM PDT
by
Yorlik803
(better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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.
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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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