This Years Pi Day more special than ever

VOX ^ | 3-14-15 | Joseph Stromberg

[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.

[PeteB570]

At least it’s not an imaginary number.

Now those gave me tons of trouble in Math 161.

[bert]

I’m soon to turn 73

“The best number is 73. Why? 73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying 7 and 3... and in binary 73 is a palindrome, 1001001, which backwards is 1001001.” Dr Sheldon Cooper

[fhayek]

Well, to be fair, the term ‘imaginary’ number was a poor choice of a name. Imaginary numbers are just as real as ‘real’ numbers.

[Robert A Cook PE]

good one!

to make it more nerd like:

3.141592653 = 9:26:53 on March 14 2015

“You’re 24 seconds late in posting.”

Actually 3/14/15 9:26:53.59

But you forgot to keep going after the decimal point....

Actually 3/14/15 9:26:535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078

[duffee]

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!”

“Cornbread are square” per Andy Griffith.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Excel starts calculating its “dates” numerically from 01-01-1900 at 00:00 (AM). So, 3.14159... is translated in Excel into 1900, Jan 3, at 3:23 in the morning.

[discostu]

How can a cheap excuse to eat pie be annoying? Think it’s time to take off the grouchy pants. Also rejoice that the people are smarter than the government, as “official” national pie day is January 23.

[Savage Beast]

Even I have been known to have a rare lapse--contrary to popular opinion. Coffee always helps! So does a loving wife! So do truthful friends--they abound in cyberspace, and often we don't even know them!

[Savage Beast]

We’re all irrational. And weird. Let’s face it. We’ll never come to the end of it—it just keeps going on and on and on. Maybe it’ll all come together for us at infinity.

[fhayek]

Your thinking is positively...trancendental.

[mikrofon]

From the Euler Identity:
e^iπ + 1 = 0

it follows that-

π = 2i ln(i)

[Conan the Librarian]

Going by our stove...it will be squared off.

As you know PI are Squared.

[Principled]

Which measure is greater - the height of a can of tennis balls or the circumference of the can?

[mad_as_he$$]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6P4wAPYlRA

[deoetdoctrinae]

E = MC²

You got my curiosity up, so I did a little checking, and the "2" (squared) superscript can be generated by holding down the ALT key and entering 01458.

;)

Now let's celebrate with some pie.

[grania]

There are 3 tennis balls in a can. Thus its height is 3 times the diameter. The circumference is pi times the diameter or a little more than 3.14 times the diameter. Thus, the circumference is greater by the decimal part of pi times the diameter.

Bless you, for providing a math nerd moment on pi day.

[mikrofon]

So, how many Angels can sit at the end of a Pi ;?

[raybbr]

...the ratio of every circle's circumference to its diameter: 3.1415.

Really? I didn't know that Pi was limited to four digits? Can we ever really know the circumference of a circle?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’ll try to cut it in Radians.

Yielding roughly 6.28 slices.

[sasquatch]

^2