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This Years Pi Day more special than ever
VOX ^ | 3-14-15 | Joseph Stromberg

Posted on 03/14/2015 7:27:17 AM PDT by thirst4truth

Today is the most magical day of the year: Pi Day.

It's also the most magical year of the century: Pi Year.

That is, today's date is 3/14/15 (at least in the US and a few other countries that write dates the same way), which matches up nicely with the first five digits of pi, the ratio of every circle's circumference to its diameter: 3.1415.

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KEYWORDS: circles; pi; piday; piyear
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1 posted on 03/14/2015 7:27:18 AM PDT by thirst4truth
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To: thirst4truth

You’re 24 seconds late in posting.


2 posted on 03/14/2015 7:29:07 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: thirst4truth

We’re having Pizza PI for supper tonight.

I’ll try to cut it in Radians.


3 posted on 03/14/2015 7:32:15 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: thirst4truth
A great challenge question is "when is the next true Pi day"? Amazing how many people are stumped.

I'm celebrating with a snack of 3.1415 perfectly round cookies.

4 posted on 03/14/2015 7:32:38 AM PDT by grania
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To: Conan the Librarian

What’s the circumference of it all?


5 posted on 03/14/2015 7:33:38 AM PDT by grania
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To: thirst4truth

It was about as special as cold fries.

It got annoying real quick when all of the C- math students online started posting about it like they are all of a sudden excited about a math concept.


6 posted on 03/14/2015 7:36:30 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: thirst4truth

What’s the big deal?

I just can’t get my head around this.


7 posted on 03/14/2015 7:37:25 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: thirst4truth

Obama has declared Pi day as racist because it ignores the squares, rectangles and triangles.


8 posted on 03/14/2015 7:43:07 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain)
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To: VanDeKoik

It’s all so irrational!


9 posted on 03/14/2015 7:46:15 AM PDT by Savage Beast (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: thirst4truth

The EXEMPT have been meeting for weeks on this.

Some EXEMPT DNC say it will be defined as 3.0
“The Arithmetic Simplification Act”.

Other EXEMPT GOP say it will be defined as 3.2
“The Rational Arithmetic Act”.

All EXEMPT agree this number, and anyone using
it will be taxed to the hilt — unless they
are EXEMPT, Moslem or Amish.
The money will be passed on to incoming aliens
for their education, health and welfare.
Changes will be deemed by the Moslem in the White Mosque.


10 posted on 03/14/2015 7:47:27 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Savage Beast

good one!

to make it more nerd like:

3.141592653 = 9:26:53 on March 14 2015


11 posted on 03/14/2015 7:52:40 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: VanDeKoik
Aw c'mon, Van, you don't want to be like the Grinch. Some of the math students who are celebrating had a grade point average above 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286 208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481 117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233

And anyway, just around the corner there's a rainbow in the sky!

12 posted on 03/14/2015 7:55:26 AM PDT by Savage Beast (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Cyclone59
GO NERDS!

We knew it was just a matter of time before the babes would be all over us!

Came and get it!IIII

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987!

E = MC… (How do you make a superscript anyway?)

13 posted on 03/14/2015 8:02:57 AM PDT by Savage Beast (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Savage Beast

My wife told me the same thing just a few minutes ago! :)

I guess I should have had my coffee earlier.


14 posted on 03/14/2015 8:05:21 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Second Amendment First

“You’re 24 seconds late in posting.”

Actually 3/14/15 9:26:53.59


15 posted on 03/14/2015 8:05:28 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: thirst4truth
I came home from school one day and told my father, "Daddy, did you know pi r squared?" He gave me a funny look and said, "Boy, pie are round!"
16 posted on 03/14/2015 8:08:19 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: VanShuyten

Sorry my math was off. I blame it on cataracts and only a sip of tea.


17 posted on 03/14/2015 8:08:46 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: grania

My spreadsheet sez Pi-Day was Jan. 3, 1900 3:23:54 AM ....


18 posted on 03/14/2015 8:08:51 AM PDT by mikrofon (Math BUMP)
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To: Savage Beast
Pi is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, yet pi is irrational. Weird.
19 posted on 03/14/2015 8:13:43 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: mikrofon

“My spreadsheet sez Pi-Day was Jan. 3, 1900 3:23:54 AM ....”

I’m listening — for more science ?


20 posted on 03/14/2015 8:15:20 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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