Posted on 03/14/2022 9:10:44 AM PDT by mylife
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and eat pie.
Pi has been calculated to over 50 trillion digits beyond its decimal point. As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern. While only a handful of digits are needed for typical calculations, pi’s infinite nature makes it a fun challenge to memorize, and to computationally calculate more and more digits.
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3 friends and I celebrated Pie Day this morning here in southcentral Pennsyltucky. Blueberry pie and 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream for breakfast. This was a first us. Prolly will make it an annual thing.
Pie are square? That’s crazy talk. Pie are round, cake are square.
Brownies are square. Cake can be round, too.
cheers!
Celebrating pi day seems irrational
“Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world.”
I read some places in the world celebrated Pi Day on 31 April...31/4.
I'm a math guy, and I never thought that this sounded like "fun."
Do love me some pi though.
weirdos
Nice, but ‘30 days hate September, APRIL, June and November ‘
twos complement has potential as a celebration.
Hate = Hath
> Pi has been calculated to over 50 trillion digits beyond its decimal point. <
Maybe I’m missing something, but that sounds like nonsense to me.
Pi is of course based on two measurements, a circle’s C and D. Now, a calculated value can only be us “good” as the relevant measurements are. So if a circle’s C and D are known to, say, eight digits each, pi can only be known to eight digits.
50 trillion digits? Nope, not buying it. But maybe I’m missing something here.
As I told the kids, the first guy to sail around the world was Sir Cumference! 😃
Also a good day to hire your friendly neighborhood private investigator! :)
Rensnalear Polytechnic Institute hockey cheer from the 1930’s (as told to me by an ancient graduate in the 1980’s):
“E to the x, dx, dx
E to the y, dy
Tangent, secant, cosign, sign
3.14159
Disintegrate them RPI!”
What is the implication of an infinite non repeating number?
I’m sure that Prime Mistake True-dolt would be happy to make the 31st of April (31/4) a stat holiday. I think it would be appropriate for him to announce it on the 1st of April.
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