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Pi fans to meet March 14 (3.14, get it?) [their joke, not mine]
Yahoo News ^
| 11 Mar 2007
| Erin McClam
Posted on 03/14/2007 5:33:17 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known — so far — to be more than one trillion digits long. They are the acolytes of the church of pi.....
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: math; nerdstuff; pi
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Will this obsession with pi never end???
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Excellent!
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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posted on
03/14/2007 5:36:44 AM PDT
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: nascarnation
Oh, I thought they were fans of the "Pi" movie, which was rather trippy.
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posted on
03/14/2007 5:37:39 AM PDT
by
swatbuznik
(Hunter '08 --apostrophes optional)
To: swatbuznik
and I thought this was about my Siamese cat, Pi-Zon.
Go figure...
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posted on
03/14/2007 5:38:47 AM PDT
by
Paisan
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Now, the next meeting needs to be March 14, '15 (3.1415).
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posted on
03/14/2007 5:41:17 AM PDT
by
mathluv
(Never Forget!)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
March 14, 2016 will be a banner day, I'm sure.
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posted on
03/14/2007 5:46:28 AM PDT
by
GourmetDan
(Demokrat Amerika - Land of the Flee and Home of the Blame)
To: CarrotAndStick
Pie are round; cornbread are square.
8
posted on
03/14/2007 5:49:20 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Look, it's basically "3", okay? Just round it down and save yourself a lot of hassle.
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posted on
03/14/2007 5:49:21 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Enoch Powell was right.)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Does the meeting start at 15:9:26?........
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posted on
03/14/2007 5:51:33 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Britney Spears shaved her head............Well, that's one way of getting rid of headlice.........)
To: ClearCase_guy
No.
As far as I can remember, it's 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884. (Help me. I have no life.)
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posted on
03/14/2007 5:51:46 AM PDT
by
wolfpat
(If you don't like the Patriot Act, you're really gonna hate Sharia Law.)
To: GourmetDan
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
WOOHOO! Pie!
14
posted on
03/14/2007 5:52:45 AM PDT
by
SquirrelKing
("When a coin in the carbon pot rings, out of global warming hell a soul does spring." - Timothy Ball)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
"Eat a Pi for charity!"
15
posted on
03/14/2007 5:59:02 AM PDT
by
quark
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
No perfesser, Pi R round!
16
posted on
03/14/2007 6:50:08 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Compromise with Islam means you will submit to them killing you!)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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posted on
03/14/2007 6:52:17 AM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(Senator Palpatine for President in 2008!)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Will this obsession with pi never end???I hope not :-)
I find Pi to be a fascinating number. Asimov had some interesting things to say about pi in his book "contact".
e is cool too.
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posted on
03/14/2007 6:59:55 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(MS Vista has detected your mouse has moved, Cancel or Allow?)
To: quark
Apparently, Pi comes in cans.
19
posted on
03/14/2007 7:07:40 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
This sounds suspiciously Steven Glass-like.
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posted on
03/14/2007 7:07:40 AM PDT
by
bkepley
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