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Mandos
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posted 14 March 2002 12:41 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Guess what day it is! It's the 14th day of the 3rd month, "3.14." Happy Pi Day

Around here, we just had a pancake breakfast, with pancakes shaped like the Greek letter "pi". With butter and maple syrup.

Now we are having the Pi Day Scavenger Hunt. Later after the Pi Moment at around 1:59 (3.14159...), we will have a Pi Recital, with pies as the prizes for both the hunt and for whichever participant manages to recite the most digits of Pi. And then we will eat Pi. I have class, but some of us will be listening to a lecture on the history of math.

So, what's everyone else planning to do for Pi Day?


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andrean
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posted 14 March 2002 12:47 PM      Profile for andrean     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'll be spending the day calculating the area of various sizes of circles.

Happy Day, mandos!


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Slick Willy
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posted 14 March 2002 12:50 PM      Profile for Slick Willy     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
rotflmao!

Well I had no plans other than to see my wife and daughter off to the airport but I think rather than going straight home afterwards I may just stop off at my local and have 3.14 pints of Sleeman's ale, and something for dinner where I will leave a $3.14 tip. heh heh pi day, I love it!


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Mandos
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posted 14 March 2002 12:52 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
We usually cut the pies into slices of one radian. This year I brought lemon meringue pie.
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skdadl
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posted 14 March 2002 12:57 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
In my work I am required to use the British system of date notation, which means that today is 14.3 and a pi day (3.14) is not possible.

A $3.14 tip, though, sounds likely for lunch, and there's a chicken pi for supper. I can compromise that much.


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posted 14 March 2002 01:09 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, in this spirit I'm going to integrate the area of a circle in polar coordinates.
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posted 14 March 2002 01:37 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Doc, I love it when you talk dirty!
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Mandos
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posted 14 March 2003 11:58 AM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's International Pi Day again! 2003! Celebrate the glorious number pi! Eat pie cut in radians! Recite pi to the nth digit, where n is a natural number. Do circular things! Think circular thoughts! Celebrate pi in all its majesty!

I just went to a pi-ancake breakfast, where the pancakes where poured onto the griddle in the shape of the Greek (geek?) letter pi. I had to leave because I have to supervise a test this afternoon, but later my friends are going to put on Imre Lakatos' play/PhD thesis, Proofs and Refutations. Then at 1:59, the pi minute, they are going to eat pie, some of which may even be pi-shaped. And recite pi. At another institution around here, they are giving away thousands of dollars in prizes for the longest pi recital without memory aids.

So celebrate pi! Watch your waist expand until its circumference is 2pi*r. Remember the number to which we owe the shape of the universe.

(And what about poor e, you ask? No one remembers poor, neglected e. Well, how do you celebrate something on Feb. 71st? ... uh, easy, take the 28-modulus of 71 ...)


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posted 14 March 2003 01:15 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
(geek?)

Absolutely! But we love you for it, Mandos.

(Teasing. I'm just jealous because I'm terrible at math. Say, maybe I'll organize a protest demonstration outside your festivities - we'll all wear Barbie wigs and chant, "Math is hard!")


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Yes, I will have to consume some Π today, that sounds good I don't think I can do it at 1:59:26, though, I just ate lunch, and am quite full.

Edited to add: that pi symbol doesn't look the same as the one on my charachter map, it looks much better there.

[ 14 March 2003: Message edited by: ben_al ]

[ 14 March 2003: Message edited by: ben_al ]


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The way Carl Sagan uses pi at the end of his novel Contact to prove the existence of a creator still gives me goosebumps.

[ 14 March 2003: Message edited by: JimmyBrogan ]


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This year I will integrate the volume of a sphere in spherical coordinates.
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i'd like to integrate the volume of your sphere...

"you got me runnin' round in circles...."


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Mandos
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posted 01 March 2004 03:20 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, everyone? Only two weeks left until International Pi Day 2004! I hope you're all getting ready!
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All the planning, the stress, the arrangements... this year I think we're just going to go with a small hall, and have it catered.
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International e day wore me out.
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One can only imagine what International i Day is like.

(ducks)


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Mandos
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posted 01 March 2004 04:41 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
International e Day hasn't even yet arrived. It's Feb 71st or something.

International i Day is in your dreams.

International Pi Day is where it's at, dudes. At least until Avogadro Day.


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Stephen Gordon
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Well, on April 15 - Leonhard Euler's birthday - we can celebrate them all together!

[Edited because I mixed it up with de Moivre's result.]

[ 01 March 2004: Message edited by: Oliver Cromwell ]


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posted 01 March 2004 04:54 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You know, there'll almost certainly be a Pi Day celebration near you, if I'm guessing where you work correctly.

BTW, it's International Pi Day rather than Intergalactic Pi Day, because we don't know what base other critters would use to represent it, let alone their calendars.

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posted 02 March 2004 12:42 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, I could set up a vector representation of a 4-dimensional sphere and try and integrate its volume, but I'd rather not.

However, I should see if I can buy a hat with a pi symbol on it. While my "from" line was not inspired by pi day (cries of "Shame!" arise from the audience), it's related because the symbol for a pi bond in chemistry is, of course, pi.


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Willowdale Wizard
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posted 08 March 2004 10:50 AM      Profile for Willowdale Wizard   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
lately, i've been having paralytic seizures, hallucinations and excruciating migraines, and this jewish numerologist sect is after me. is this related to march 14th?
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You know, at first I thought this topic was a tasteless comment on International Women's Day...

...climbing out of the guttter...


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posted 12 March 2004 12:03 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I have been informed by my sources that today is Floating Point Error International Pi Day at Carleton University, since it's too hard to hold it on Sunday. If you go to Herzberg at 1:30, there'll be a pi recital. At 1:59, there will be lots and lots of pi to eat. This morning there was a pi-ancake breakfast.

Of course, I am going to celebrate *real* International Pi Day on Sunday properly with friends. I am bringing pecan pi.


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googlymoogly
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posted 12 March 2004 12:21 PM      Profile for googlymoogly     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh damn; I'll be at the, uhh, "library" all afternoon and will be unable to attend
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quote:
Originally posted by rasmus_raven:
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I went a few thousand digits further, and look what came up:

01011101010101101101100010101110110
110010101010110110110110101010101010
101010101010110101010101010101010101
0101010101010100010101010101010101010
100101010101010101010101010101010101 01010100101010010101010101010010101010
10010101010010101010101010010101010100
10101010101010101010101010010101010010
101010101010010101010010101010101010110
110101010101010101010101010100101010101
0101010

It's a message from God. Using the atomic number of hydrogen (most abundant element in the universe), I decoded it.

It turns out to be a recipe for avacado dip.

.....and not a particularly good one.

[ 12 March 2004: Message edited by: Tommy_Paine ]


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Mandos
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posted 13 March 2005 07:09 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
(Foodie alert.) Glory be! Tomorrow is International Pi Day again. Unfortunately, I am now living in a place so philistine as not to have heard of this great celebration, so I will be celebrating all on my own.

To celebrate, I have bought a pie crust. But I am wondering what to do with it. I can either make something sweet or something nonsweet. But I'm not sure which, and didn't really prepare properly.

The sweet thing: I have a bag of frozen cherries, and some other assorted frozen fruit (pineapple, mango, etc). It MAY be enough. I have no sugar. I do have a bottle of blueberry syrup. Will a blueberry/cherry/mango/pineapple/strawberry pie *work*?

The alternative is to use my existing stash of cooked ground beef (with onions, peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, and spices) as a filling, perhaps with a little bit of cheese. Some of the ground beef is in (thick) arrabiata spaghetti sauce form, but I think it still might work. It'll probably end up something tourtiere-like, I guess.

So which will it be, that is the question.


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posted 13 March 2005 07:27 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Can't help you, I'm not an authority on pi. But I have a couple apples here, I will slice them thinly, and use them along with a commercial apple pi filling in a frozen pi crust. Add a little margarine (I don't like butter) and cinnamon and nutmeg and I'll be set for pi after about 40 minutes at 314F. I appreciate the reminder. Lunch will be delayed until 1:59 to mark the moment.
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posted 13 March 2005 08:43 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
OK, I decided to go with the meat and cheese option...but now I have a problem!

When closing the lid of the pie, I kind of broke the dough a lot, and it went on in pieces. I tried to stick some of them together, but there are many many fissues and a couple of exposed bits. How bad is that?


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posted 13 March 2005 08:48 PM      Profile for Reality. Bites.        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Just think of it as a freestyle lattice crust.
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posted 13 March 2005 09:31 PM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
My pi's are as freestyle as you can get.
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I did the tourtiere approximation plus some cheese and it was indeed heavy, and a bit soggy, but quite tasty. I shall perform pie-related program activities in the future.
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I can't bake a pie worth a darn, so I will have apple pie for Pi day. Wonder if the math/science folks are doing anything tomorrow.
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Maybe see a ole rerun of the movie PI and wonder if the Show Numb3rs was based on it?

Or think about the Perimeter Institute(PI) for those less familiar.

....or even contemplate John Baez's Fool's Gold PHI and the golden ration begininng from some sort of mandalic interpretation, coming from a psychological model based on Liminocentric structures?

[ 14 March 2005: Message edited by: forum observer ]


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Damn, I forgot, and we're going to have stew. Maybe I could turn that into a pi, just a little something in a phyllo shell.
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posted 14 March 2005 09:24 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I wish it were PAYday instead of PI day. (Payday is on the 15th, and oh man, I'm counting the minutes until tomorrow.)
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I suddenly remembered: we must remember not to forget national Good Riddance Day this month, that being the day that Mr Cellucci is LEAVING CANADA FOREVER.

I think that's the 18th, yes/no? Anyone recall?


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...watching Magnum PI reruns.
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int a=10000,b,c=2800,d,e,f[2801],g;
main(){
for(;b-c f[b++]=a/5;
for(;d=0,g=c*2;c-=14,printf("%.4d",e+d/a),e=d%a)
for(b=c;d+=f[b]*a,
f[b]=d%--g,d/=g--,--b;d*=b);}

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posted 14 March 2005 02:20 PM      Profile for No Yards   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Tommy_Paine:


I went a few thousand digits further, and look what came up:

01011101010101101101100010101110110
110010101010110110110110101010101010
101010101010110101010101010101010101
0101010101010100010101010101010101010
100101010101010101010101010101010101 01010100101010010101010101010010101010
10010101010010101010101010010101010100
10101010101010101010101010010101010010
101010101010010101010010101010101010110
110101010101010101010101010100101010101
0101010

It's a message from God. Using the atomic number of hydrogen (most abundant element in the universe), I decoded it.

It turns out to be a recipe for avacado dip.

.....and not a particularly good one.

[ 12 March 2004: Message edited by: Tommy_Paine ]


Look more to me like God gave you the middle finger!


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This thread's Google ad has something to do with healthy pancakes and waffles...
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