pi day!

[dragos240]

It's pi day! Horray!

[swoll1980]

It's pi day! Horray!

pi day?

[myusername]

3/14

[dragos240]

yay :D

[run1206]

:lol: i almost forgot.
Happy Pi day :)

[dragos240]

good thing i reminded you ;)

[marco123]

3/14

What's 3 14ths? (Maybe I'm having an off-day :( )

Cheers, Marco.

[Polygon]

my math teacher said yesterday, who is a graduate student:

"if you ever want to go farther in math, don't become one of those people who celebrate pi day (or square root day for that matter), cause it makes people like me, want to punch you."

[dragos240]

he means march 14, not a fraction, meaning it's pi day, 3.14.

[marco123]

he means march 14, not a fraction, meaning it's pi day, 3.14.

Oh. :redface:

Edit: 3.141592653 IIRC

[elmer_42]

my math teacher said yesterday, who is a graduate student:

"if you ever want to go farther in math, don't become one of those people who celebrate pi day (or square root day for that matter), cause it makes people like me, want to punch you."
This made me laugh so hard because my math teacher had an all-out celebration of Pi day in class yesterday.

[sisco311]

but, pi ≈ http://pi.ytmnd.com/

[RD1]

what's 3 14ths? (maybe i'm having an off-day )


0.214285714

:p

[dragos240]

but, pi ≈ http://pi.ytmnd.com/

Hahahahahaa!

[marco123]

0.214285714

:p

:lolflag:

I'm gonna go sit in the corner with my Dunce cap on, please ignore me. :(

[dragos240]

:lolflag:

I'm gonna go sit in the corner with my Dunce cap on, please ignore me. :(

??????

[marco123]

??????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunce

[dragos240]

my question was why?

[marco123]

my question was why?

Read the rest of the thread, I'm having a serious off-day, I forgot about the different US dating style and asked what 3 14ths were.:redface:

[dragos240]

Oh i see so your not from the us?

[marco123]

Oh i see so your not from the us?

Nope, U.K.

[dragos240]

Nope, U.K.
Gotcha.

[mkendall]

π-day is the thirty-first of April. Thus there is no such thing as π-day.

[zmjjmz]

pi approximation day is July 22nd.

[jpkotta]

my math teacher said yesterday, who is a graduate student:

"if you ever want to go farther in math, don't become one of those people who celebrate pi day (or square root day for that matter), cause it makes people like me, want to punch you."

Here's why:
π
≈ 0x3.243f6a8885a308d313198a2e03707344a4093822299f31 d0082efa98ec4e6c89452821e638d01377be5466cf34e90c6c c0ac29b7c97c50dd3f84d5b5b54709179216d5d98979fb1bd1 310ba698dfb5ac2ffd72dbd01adfb7b8e1afed6a267e96ba7c 9045f12c7f9924a19947b3916cf70801f2e2858efc16636920 d871574e68...
≈ 0b11.001001000011111101101010100010001000010110100 01100001000110100110001001100011001100010100010111 00000001101110000011100110100010010100100000010010 01110000010001000101001100111110011000111010000000 01000001011101111101010011000111011000100111001101 10010001001010001010010100000100001111001100011100 01101000000010011011101111011111001010100011001101 10011110011010011101001000011000110110011000000101 01100001010011011011111001001011111000101000011011 10100111111100001001101010110110101101101010100011 10000100100010111100100100001011011010101110110011 00010010111100111111011000110111101000100110001000 01011101001101001100011011111101101011010110000101 11111111101011100101101101111010000000110101101111 11011011110111000111000011010111111101101011010100 01001100111111010010110101110100111110010010000010 00101111100010010110001111111100110010010010010100 00110011001010001111011001110010001011011001111011 10000100000000001111100101110001010000101100011101 11111000001011001100011011010010010000011011000011 1000...

[lisati]

3/14

Doesn't work where I live: March 14th would commonly be written the other way round, 14/3 (and due to timezone differences, my machine is showing that it's the 15th)

[Polygon]

Here's why:
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how is writing pi in hex or binary have anything to do with my comment?

[jpkotta]

how is writing pi in hex or binary have anything to do with my comment?

Because it shows how the value of π is only tangentially related to it's decimal expansion, and anything relating to that. You can just as easily claim that March 2nd is π day, or the 4th or the 5th. Maybe your math teacher had another problem with π day, but this is the one that I have with it.

Now, I clearly have too much time on my hands, but maybe this is when π day should be: π is a ratio, so we should pick a day that reflects that. So pick the day that is 1/π the way through the year, which works out to April 26th or 27th.

OTOH, it's a good excuse for eating pie.

[mehaga]

but, pi ≈ http://pi.ytmnd.com/

hahahaha :popcorn:

[dragos240]

π-day is the thirty-first of April. Thus there is no such thing as π-day.

That is how you write the date where you are, in the US we use a different format month/date/year