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Author Topic: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15  (Read 9088 times)

bit

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Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« on: March 13, 2015, 09:56 AM »
Saturday 03-14-15 (why does that sound so familiar?) is a very rare and special Pi Day, b/c the date spells out the first 5 digits of Pi.
This won't happen again until 2115.
Celebrate with your fav flavor of pi.
In observance of this special occasion, here is a pi joke;
Father (to his son home from school): What'd ye larn t'day, sonny?
Son: Pi r square!
Father: Fool kid. Pi are not square, pi are round.

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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2015, 10:25 AM »
Well, over here in the non-US of A, we use a different date notation (14-03-2015, 2015-03-14 or 14.3.2015), that doesn't even come close to Pi, so I guess we'll have to pull the pass-card for the festivities :o ;D

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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2015, 01:13 PM »
5 digits? You mean 10 digits!

3.141592653

03-14-15 9:26:53

 :P
« Last Edit: March 13, 2015, 03:28 PM by Deozaan »

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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2015, 02:02 PM »
5 digits? You mean 10 digits!

3.141592653

03-14-2015 9:26:53

 :P

Not only is that a good catch Deo, but it's just epic that the digits of clock times actually work!!

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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2015, 02:06 PM »

Heh for the second half of the thread tomorrow, everyone post their Pie stories!
You can even do it twice because "almost 9:30" is sane hours for almost everyone both AM and PM!
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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2015, 01:24 AM »
Woo hoo!

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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2015, 03:20 AM »
We in India, where date is written as dd/mm/yy,  could have had our PI day next month, if April had 31 days.

31/4/15 9:26:53

Keeping the time before also requires us to wait till 2065 at least.

3:14:15 9/2/65

No PI for us, now :(

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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2015, 03:29 AM »
Nearly  :(

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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2015, 08:40 AM »
There's always 06/28/31 8:53:07. 8)
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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2015, 09:46 AM »
Pi is an irrational number and can only be represented in decimal notation as an approximation.

In the case of Pi, rounding (3.1416) provides a better decimal approximation than truncation (3.1415).

I conclude therefore that next year's Pi day (3/14/16) will be a closer fit than this year's Pi day.

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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2015, 09:51 AM »
Abterix, lol.

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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2015, 12:18 AM »
Woo hoo!

I made a point to get some today. Sweet potato pecan. :  )
I'll post a pic of it soon. Anyone else get some?


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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2015, 09:25 AM »
Missed my pie, in the middle of moving.

But it won't be too long until e day...  2/7/18 2:08:18!

Hmm, tossing the 0 placeholder in kinda defeats the purpose...
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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2015, 10:26 AM »
And here it is!

A Sweet potato pecan pie from the Heights Tavern in Washington Heights NY City.

Sweet Potato Pecan Pie for Pi day 3-14-15 shrink 25% mod.JPG



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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2015, 10:47 AM »
Here's the pi-e p3lb0x and I did yesterday :)

happy-pi-day-pie-1024px.jpgOnce-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
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Re: Once-in-a-century Pi Day 03/14/15
« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2015, 03:41 AM »
TaoPhoenix and f0dder, ^those are both beautiful dishes!  :-*
People are still trying to evenly divide their pi.  Waa ha ha!   ;D