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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 09:10 AM
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Happy Pi Day!
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 09:23 AM
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1. What Pi sounds like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7tq7L0N8E
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 11:16 AM
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11. Sounds like Pachelbel.
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Rosie1223 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 09:35 AM
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2. ummmmm....pi
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 09:36 AM
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3. I always celebrate pi day on 31 April
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 09:43 AM
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4. Stupid metric system!
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 09:47 AM
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5. Ironically I have a sister who is a BOOKKEEPER
whose birthday is today. I guess it was her numeric fate.....
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 10:11 AM
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6. Pi is Wrong!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x76940
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 10:13 AM
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7. Truth.
We'll celebrate tau day in June.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 11:24 AM
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12. Pie are round.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 11:34 AM
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14. If we re-defined pi to be 180, converting radians to degrees would be a whole lot easier
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 11:41 AM
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15. .
:spank:
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 10:38 AM
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8. What, is that really the solution? nt
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 01:24 PM
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16. That will give you any digit of pi in base 16.
It's discovery was horribly shocking to the pi cult. It meant that one the great mysteries of pi was actually a mystery of the number five. It meant that grinding out digits of pi in base ten was not only useless, it was actually silly, a kind of cosmic joke played on hapless creatures with eight fingers and two thumbs.

Needless to say the cult of the number five was very pleased.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiFormulas.html
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 01:29 PM
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17. It may be simplistic, but I always assumed pi could not be expressed...
...with certainty because we were using a linear measuring system to express something fundamentally round.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 02:27 PM
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18. it's one of many representations
Edited on Mon Mar-14-11 02:27 PM by pokerfan
It's also an infinite series, noting the summation symbol. My personal favorite is also believed to be the oldest (it was lost for 1500 years):



I appreciate it for its simplicity, not for its efficiency at converging!
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CrownPrinceBandar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 10:38 AM
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9. "Periodic Table with a center piece of mind"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5C16xoUv4o
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 11:10 AM
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10. I can't binary this n/t
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 11:31 AM
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13. For those of you with scientific calculators
Try calculating e π - π. It's a standard floating point test. It should come out to 20 unless there are rounding errors.

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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 02:32 PM
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19. You can't make me learn!
*shakes fist*
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 02:35 PM
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20. Oh come on. You know you have nerd envy.
:evilgrin:
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 03:00 PM
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22. Well, that goes without saying.
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 02:40 PM
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21. What pi looks like:
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-11 07:59 PM
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23. For those who haven't done so...
I suggest celebrating Pi day by reading "The Life of Pi," by Yann Martel.

Wonderful book.
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