Happy Pi Day

Andy Motherway — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:05:20 GMT

Pi day? That is hilarious, but important...

I watched the movie Pi the other day for the thousandth time and still thought the acting was terrible.

However, I intend to watch it again today at some point in honor of this special date...

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George — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:06:58 GMT

Mmmmmmm, Pi.

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S. Lange, Greensboro NC — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:05:56 GMT

Many years ago one of my fellow classmates exclaimed upon being told that e^(i x pi) = 0, "My God! All that work for nothing!"

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Matt Rosen — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:49:37 GMT

I heart Pi Day

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Alan Boyle — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:26:01 GMT

An anonymous poster sent along this question for Andy Motherway: "If you think the acting is so terrible in the Pi movie, then why have you watched it a thousand times?"

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VM New Jersey — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:40:26 GMT

Pi day "on 3/14 at 1:59 p.m" would be incorrect- it s/b 3/14 at 1:59 A.M. 1:59 pm is correctly expressed 13:59 which would make the string 3.141359 instead of the 3.14159 you're going for. Sorry to geek on your parade.

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The Dude, Pittsburgh, PA — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:58:48 GMT

Hate to do this, but to correct a previous comment, e^(i x pi)=-1, not 0.

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Steve, MF, OR — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:08:00 GMT

Even a fifth grader can spell pie. Sheesh. Anyway, that math term thingy is still Greek to me.

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Alan Boyle — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:10:13 GMT

All that work for nothing! ;-)

Yes, military time spoils the string... But if you were up at 0159 on 3/14 (GMT, right?), my hat's off to you. In fact, if you wanted to get all geeky about it, you would have marked the day on Jan. 3 (3/1 in European notation) with a moment at just before 0416 (no way around that zero!).

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Darren Bly, Bakersfield Ca — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:16:52 GMT

VM New Jersey I guess I'm a geek too because I thought the same thing. On second thought, would 1:59am be 3.140159?

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Dave, Cleveland OH — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:27:32 GMT

I happen to share a birthday with this "religious holiday" for math teachers. They always made a big deal out of it throughout high school. And I really hate math too!

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Tom, Michigan — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:34:01 GMT

"Pi day "on 3/14 at 1:59 p.m" would be incorrect- it s/b 3/14 at 1:59 A.M."

Since Pi is a number related to a circle, shouldn't both times be celebrated for a more well-rounded experience.

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Mark, Texas — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:41:07 GMT

Ok, the coolest thing about this entry and the subsequent posts, is that no one linked it to a hatred of Microsoft, Bush, Iraq, Democrats, Republicans, etc. Thank you geeks for not turn this into a rant like everyone else does!

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Christy M Vasquez, Dublin, Oh — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:44:36 GMT

is there any chance that black holes would have anything to do with time only moving forward? considering that time is the only thing that seems to travel in one direction only could it be that black holes pulling things in one direction towards them would have anything to do with the time travel and procession

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Ashlea Hilliard, Columbus, OH — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:53:12 GMT

I am making pie today. An amazing apple pie. All in honor of Pi Day. :)

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George Salas, Caracas, Venezuela — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:16:19 GMT

To complicate things, in Spanish, dates are given DAY MONTH, not month day, so 3/14 has no meaning, since thre is no month 14 nor 31/4 since April has 30 days....

Well, pi is part of our every day existence....

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Bill Seaver — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:22:28 GMT

Happy Pi Day from mysliceofPi.com!!

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ME, MEMPHIS TN — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:22:53 GMT

YOU ALL ARE GEEKS

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Str8shooter Wallaceburg Ontario — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:23:30 GMT

I've always celebrated PI day on 22/July.

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Rick F. — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:33:46 GMT

You people have WAYYY to much time on your hands!! But then, what does that say of me b/c I read these things!

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Joe Basile — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:34:24 GMT

I don't think it matters what specific time you celebrate pi day. Or even what day. The important part is the delicious pi. MmmmMmmm apple pi. Cherry pi. Boston cream pi. Chocolate pudding pi. Mincemeat pi. I hope to have a stomach ache by the end of the day!

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Soeren Dalsgaard, Brussels, Belgium — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:09:08 GMT

22/July, yeah that's close enough I guess...

Can I have a large container of coffee, cream and sugar. Remember that and you remember pi.

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syd — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:16:14 GMT

singing pi....
pi.ytmnd.com
(credit to website creator)

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Secretary of AG club in Northridge — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:48:34 GMT

In honor of Pi day my fellow Agriculture Club members and I will walk around our company building.

NASA OUT

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luke, daytona beach, fl — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:54:28 GMT

why doesn't anyone celebrate phi day? or how about e-day? these numbers are just as irrational and transcendental as pi and debatably more significant.

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Lana, Vancouver, WA — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:58:12 GMT

Oh, and don't forget that Chiaramonte became Pope Pius on March 14, 1800. Maybe he, too, was a pi geek.

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Annapalooza, Annapolis, MD — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:19:03 GMT

Even wannabe geeks. Unbelievable. Spend your time reading about math and the sciences. Don't speculate about subjects and events with which you have only an ever so slight familiarity. As for time only going forward... how do you know this? Perhaps you meant humans only EXPERIENCE time going forward. My geek community believes there are no absolutes. It would, however, make a great thought experiment (see Einstein and Schrodinger), but I do not have the ..... [aw, do I have to say it?] ... time (I just couldn't help myself!). Anthropocentrists will be our collective and eventual downfall. ---- Close enough to politics (or religion) for you?

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Jethro — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:34:44 GMT

Pi are not square. Pi are round. Cornbread are square.

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aaron r — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:51:18 GMT

e^2(pi)i = 0

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Lisa, Portland, OR — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:04:08 GMT

Check out Irving Kaplansky's pi song

http://www.maa.org/mathland/
mathtrek_7_12_99.html

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Csaba, Westland, MI — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:08:24 GMT

As Pikachu would say: "Pi, pi, Pikapi"!

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Andrea, Denver, CO — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:14:33 GMT

If you want to listen to an awesome Pi song check out The Pi Song guys my space page,

http://www.myspace.com/hardnphirm,

It Rocks!

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Palos, Piscataway, NJ — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:38:15 GMT

pi should be spelled with e at the end. ask dan quayle.

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Jason Isaacs — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:47:48 GMT

And so the lovely, geeky and rant free day has been marred.

I think I'll make cheese cake... after all, it's more of a custard pie than a cake.

I wonder what PI looks like in base 12. Hmm.....

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Ken, Chelmsford, MA — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:04:52 GMT

Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?

A: Pumpkin pi.

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Zoltan — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:43:26 GMT

On March 14 at 1:50p.m. under Zip Code 92653 (Laguna Hills, California) I celebrated 9 decimals of pi.

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Stephanie, New York, New York — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:04:13 GMT

Pikachu does not say 'Pi' as in the mathimatical pi. He says 'pi' as in pee. Durrrr.

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James, A small town in Antartica — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:12:01 GMT

I love Pi day, now I can't wait till 2015
3.1415
lol YAY

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Bass Ackwards — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:19:50 GMT

If time were to go backwards would we celebrate ip day, daddy?

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Clare, Washington, DC — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:47:52 GMT

I don't know where people got the idea that Pie are square, since everyone knows Pie are round.

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Marty Singer — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:49:10 GMT

Hate to be petty, but e^2*pi*i = 1.

e^pi*i = -1.

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Jen, Saxonburg, PA — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:01:00 GMT

My friend told me 2 days ago that she was getting a tattoo of the pi symbol today, and the only reason I remembered it was today is that today also happens to be my brother's birthday. It didn't even occur to me that the reason she got it today is that it's pi day (until I saw this article)! She's getting a tattoo of pi because she's a math teacher, and she embraces her geekiness!

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aaron R — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:09:41 GMT

oopsie.. e^2(pi)i = 1 .. dang it..

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Chris, Ottawa Lake, MI — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:55:50 GMT

And like an idiot, I celebrated Pi day on March 1st, at 4:15.

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John Snufalupagus — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:37:40 GMT

I attempted to call (314) 159-2654, to wish a happy Pi day to whoever in St. Louis had the lucky phone number, but the phone could not connect as dialed.

Too bad. If I ever move to that area code I'm requesting Pi as my phone number.

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Ron, Phoenix, AZ — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:05:38 GMT

Many MANY years ago I set the combination on my briefcase to Pi, thinking no one could possibly guess that one - thought I was so clever. Now I need to go home and check. Dang.

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kashyap vasavada ,indianapolis,in — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:36:30 GMT

Sorry guys! e^i*z*pi is zero only for z=(i/pi)*infinity! So keep working!!

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Joe — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:57:04 GMT

sine pie = 0! A little trig to liven up the party:)

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Schrodinger's cat is Dead — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:26:26 GMT

Kashyap has finally got it, i just hope that the (*) is for multiplication and not the complex conjugate.

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Des Emery,The Carborundum Chronicles,St.Thomas,ON,Canada — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:33:05 GMT

Veerrry interesting. And if anyone cares phi is also celebrated by some and phi is considered by them to be much more 'interesting' than plain old pi, being the formula for the Golden Equation and being used by visual artists in composition. It is the description of things like seashells, flowers, and spiral galaxies among many others.

If anyone out there cares, I remember the pi relationship being predicated upon right-angled triangles (easily obtained area) crammed into a given circle in astronomical numbers, side to side, filling the circle almost completely, except for the tiny arc of the circle's circumference where the foot of each triangle touched it. The more triangles, the closer the computed area approached the true area of the circle. But the two numbers would never co-incide until infinity, which is why the decimal system of expressing pi will never reach "0" and therefore become definite. I would suppose the same would apply if the base 12 system of counting is used. Circles are circles and triangles are triangles.

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Timothy, Springdale Arkansas — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:46:46 GMT

You guy's are all wrong! Flower, egg, fruit, sugar and a hot oven= Pie!

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Ken, Chelmsford, MA — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:03:48 GMT

One more ... couldn't resist...

Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice cream by its diameter?

A: Pi a'la mode.

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Gaetano Marano - Italy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:38:46 GMT

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not correct... the first 64 digits of Pi are 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 592 ...so, "3" as "march" and "14" as the day are correct, but, as common, after "day" and "month" come "year" ...then, the ONLY "Pi Days" was: "March 14, 1" or "March 14, 15" or "March 14, 159" or "March 14, 1592" ...and the next Pi Day will be in "March 14, 15926"

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Scott Marcus — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:55:47 GMT

Regarding time and black holes:

Brian Greene's book "The Fabric of the Cosmos" discusses our perception of the flow of time quite well.

His take on it is that our perception of the "Arrow of Time" pointing in only the forward direction is related to the second law of thermodynamics, which deals with entropy.

It's a great read if you can get your head around it.

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Lizzie-Middle Earth — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:07:23 GMT

I am terrible at math, but a geek at heart. Cheers to all of you for making Pi day so much fun!

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Fibonacci wandering somewhere in Italy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:16:50 GMT

So many representations above leading to [0] or to [-1] will require extensive review for peaceful resolution to a troubled mind. Frankly, I'm pi-ed out. But many pi-thanks.

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Joe, Houston — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:39:15 GMT

If you really want to get your geek on then you can start preparing for "Pythagoras Day" on June 8, 2010 (6/8/10... 36+64=100). Those days only come around 12 times each CENTURY. Start planning your geek party now, venues are sure to fill up.

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Abraham, Jupiter, Florida — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:56:08 GMT

The only way for x^y = 1 is for y to equal zero. e^pi does not equal 1 nor does e^i*pi = -1. e^pi (that is 2.7182818...^3.14159265... actually equals 23.1406926...

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RA, kcmo — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:00:35 GMT

aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggg..... i missed pi day

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Emma, Richmond, VA — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:19:29 GMT

Math ... make ... head ... hurt.

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Chris, Ottawa Lake, MI — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:46:35 GMT

If you missed pi day, don't worry. Units are arbitrary. Celebrate Pi day everyday by redefining a new unit of time that would allow you to define the current day by digits of pi relative to your (also arbitrary) starting point.

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Andy Motherway, Minneapolis, MN — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:05:21 GMT

Hello Mr. Boyle,

Responding to your question: Pi is one of the movies that I find mesmerizing, despite some of the performances. Also, I am Irish and can tolerate all kinds of things.

In fact, the snack I'm eating right now is probably expired, but it tastes okay...

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John Doe, Seattle, Wash. — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:10:32 GMT

"The only way for x^y = 1 is for y to equal zero."

Not true. y can be anything you want it to be...if x is 1. There are also special cases where y is not zero and x is not 1. For example, (-1)^2. In fact, e^(2*i*pi) is the same thing as (e^(i*pi))^2, and since e^(i*pi) is -1, this simplifies to (-1)^2 = 1.

"e^pi does not equal 1 nor does e^i*pi = -1."

You're half right.

"e^pi (that is 2.7182818...^3.14159265... actually equals 23.1406926..."

We didn't say e^pi = 1. e^(i*pi) = -1 is correct. Google Euler's formula. Actually, just google "e^(i*pi)".

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Crusty Old Man, Ten Sleep, WY — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:59:05 GMT

In honor of Pi Day, how about an Avogadro Pi? 6.023 x 10^23 avocados (minus the mole but with garlic/ajo al dente) baked in a trans-fat-saturated, golden brown, flaky, perfectly circular crust. Dam* the cholesterol; full thrombosis ahead. Besides, the vier und zwanzig blackbird thang is so retro.

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Marty Lewinter — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:19:03 GMT

It is amazing how many definite integrals with no trig terms have values involving 'pi.'

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me — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:21:36 GMT

would everyone please shut their pi hole ............