Today is March 14, which means one thing: It’s Pi Day! (For those of us who slept through math, pi = 3. Read the full post.
Mar 14
2010
01:26 PM ET
Happy Pi Day! 3.14 reasons to celebrate
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A statistics professor starts his class with the following number on one chalkboard panel 3.141692653589793238462643383279 but goes on without mentioning it. Finally one of the students inquires about the reason for the number and the professor replies “that is PI to 30 decimal places; 27 of which are wrong!” (the 6 after 3.141 should have been 5)
Disney’s “Donald in Math Magic land”
The .14 (etc) should go to Euler’s Identity – e^pi*i+1=0
Unsolicited Radio/Television Commercial Promotion (Intelligent Design…Pi)
Circle Burger Commercial
(Intelligent Design…Pi)
:30 Commercial
(BKG MOOD MUSIC)
TEXT: Circle Burger Presents:
An intelligent choice in hamburgers.
(Effect in mathmatical pi symbol)
ANNCR: Early civilization discovered
by measuring around a circular object
and dividing by its diameter,
the results were always about three…regardless of size!
This number is known as Pi (3.14).
(BKG JUBILEE MUSIC UP)
At Circle Burger you can discover
the amazing taste of the round hamburger.
On March 14th, three hamburgers and a pie
to celebrate Pi for $3.14.
Since Pi rhymes with fry, well throw that in too.
Circle Burger…proving that good taste measures up!
(YEAH THE CLOWN TURNED IT DOWN)
That part in Twilight was my favorite too….any scene like that in movies. I think they had one in the President’s Daughter as well.
My favorite book is “Life of Pi”, what about that?
Revenge of the Nerds: Eat a Pi for charity!
Plus, it’s my birthday!
nathan@nathan-laptop:~$ sudo make pi
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362440656643086021394946395224737190702179860943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132000568127145263560827785771342757789609173637178721468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923542019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999998372978049951059731732816096318595024459455346908302642522308253344685035261931188171010003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303598253490428755468731159562863882353787593751957781857780532171226806613001927876611195909216420198
I have Pi tattooed on my back and have memorised the first 100 digits. : )
IM A NEW GEEK LML
I FOUND MY B-DAY IN PI
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