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.
Don’t tell Obama what comes after a trillion.
I am afraid that Geithner is working on it.
Yummy! That’s my favorite kind of pi!!!
You shouldn’t have any problem finding a million digits of pi on the Net. If you’re in a clutch situation and using FORTRAN just remember that
CONSTANT PI = 4.0*ATAN(1.0)
Thanks for the critically important tip. Unfortunately, I haven't looked FORTAN in over 30 years. Do you know what FORTRAN stands for?
“E to the X, Dx, Dx
E to the Y, Dy
Tangent, secant, cosign, sign
three point one four one five nine
Disintegate them RPI”
Hockey chant for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute circa 1932.
So, General Petraeus is briefing Barry Obama in the Oval Office.
"Oh and finally, sir, three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq today."
Barry goes pale, his jaw hanging open in stunned disbelief. He buries his
face in his hands, muttering "My God...My God".
"Mr. President," says Petraeus, "we lose soldiers all the time, and it's
terrible. But I've never seen you so upset. What's the matter?"
Obama looks up and says..."How many is a Brazilian?"
FORmula TRANslation.
I usta say I made a pretty good living for about five years knowing just two things, Huygen’s Principle and VMS Fortran. But you hadda really, really know them.
Pi, actually just another name for 2 x 2/1 x 2/3 x 4/3 x 4/5 x 6/5 x 6/7 x 8/7 x 8/9 x ...
Better known as 4 x (1/1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 +-+-+-...)
And to think, some people think it’s all about circles.
Yay!
(Attempting to post at 3/14 1:59)
some slightly misguided folks celebrate all day, every day, 24/7
You are good!
After I left school I got a job with a company that utilized "C" (and later C++) on virtually all of its products. I stayed with software most of my career, but did other ancilory funtions, not programming. SW was a lot of fun!
LOL!!! (I also heard a similar joke with George Bush telling the punchline. It was funny then, and funny now.)
I hear a similar chant at WPI every basketball season. But i dont understand it.
LOL! — But they lose 2 stars off of their foreheads.
Prove all odd numbers greater than one are prime:
Engineer: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, sure ok.
Phycistist: 3, 5, 7, experimental error, 11, 13, hypothesis accepted at the 95 % confidence level.
Mathematician: First we need to define what we mean by “number”, “odd” and “prime”. If by “number” we mean the set of elements in Galois Field {R} closed over the operations of addition and multiplication but not division and subtraction, or equivalently... I forgot, what was the question, again?
LOL!!! I also have a degree in Math. This joke is so true. BTW — I did study English. You might want to define what a Phycistist is; I could not find it in my dictionary. (Sorry about that.)
I’m not a “software professional” but I have written over 11,000 lines of deliverable C, but never a line of deliverable Fortran, just analysis code. I also wrote about 40,000 lines of deliverable Basic.
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