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13 Mar 2012, 9:50 pm

Happy Pi day to all who value Pi!
Tell someone you know about Pi Day if they don't already know and maybe have a slice of pie.

All together now:
3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881 7101000313 7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303 5982534904 2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778 1857780532 1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 2164201989....................................... :)



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13 Mar 2012, 11:55 pm

Happy PYE day to you, too!

I couldn't resist. :P


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14 Mar 2012, 1:47 am

Happy pi day everybody! :D



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14 Mar 2012, 2:11 am

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14 Mar 2012, 2:17 am

Why is a slave celebrating, get back to work in the diamond mines in egypt, and those Russian submarines better be amazing if they're going to get to australia in the next hour along with all those native Egyptian Llamas.


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14 Mar 2012, 3:32 pm

Happy pi day all -
making an apple pie with crumb topping to celebrate.



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14 Mar 2012, 4:08 pm

Bah, humbug!

The cult of pi is pure nonsense. Pi is not "the" fundamental circle constant! It's just an artifact of how we write mathematics. We could write mathematics using 1/pi or 2pi instead, and it would all work out the same. The entire family of numbers derived from pi are collectively an interesting collection that has something to do with circles. But pi itself is not a particularly distinguished member of this family!

I get even more annoyed when people memorise the decimal representation of pi. This is silly and arbitrary in two ways. First, pi is not a particularly special number when compared to its relatives. Second, the decimal system is an arbitrary artifact of the fact that we have ten fingers, and is not a natural mathematical idea.



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14 Mar 2012, 4:24 pm

Declension wrote:
Bah, humbug!

The cult of pi is pure nonsense. Pi is not "the" fundamental circle constant! It's just an artifact of how we write mathematics. We could write mathematics using 1/pi or 2pi instead, and it would all work out the same. The entire family of numbers derived from pi are collectively an interesting collection that has something to do with circles. But pi itself is not a particularly distinguished member of this family!

I get even more annoyed when people memorise the decimal representation of pi. This is silly and arbitrary in two ways. First, pi is not a particularly special number when compared to its relatives. Second, the decimal system is an arbitrary artifact of the fact that we have ten fingers, and is not a natural mathematical idea.


the property of euclidean space, its essential flatness is what makes pi = 3.1415962..... pi is what it is for the same reason the angles in a triangle add up to pi radians.

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14 Mar 2012, 8:53 pm

I want to live in Kansas, so pi is just 3.



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14 Mar 2012, 9:39 pm

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15 Mar 2012, 10:51 pm

My school yesterday celebrated Pi Day. We ate pie and made posters related to pi.


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