Thoroughly enjoyed the celebration of the pie aspects of 'pi' day.
And well done Dr Q ..and grateful thanks for your work .
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Happy Pi Day Doctor Q!
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Pi Day is next Monday.
To celebrate, Blaze Pizza will be selling pizzas for $3.14. See news story or Facebook post.
As usual, the Exploratorium in San Francisco is having a full day of Pi events.
What other celebrations or observances does anyone know about?
To celebrate, Blaze Pizza will be selling pizzas for $3.14. See news story or Facebook post.
As usual, the Exploratorium in San Francisco is having a full day of Pi events.
What other celebrations or observances does anyone know about?
Pi Day is my other birthday. It's the day I finished my last radiation treatment. I'll be 3 years old on Monday. 
Pi Day is my other birthday. It's the day I finished my last radiation treatment. I'll be 3 years old on Monday.
Good for you!
You should figure out when you'll be 3.14159265 years old.Pi Day is my other birthday. It's the day I finished my last radiation treatment. I'll be 3 years old on Monday.
0.14 * 365 = 51.684 days. But this year is a leap year, so not sure how to correct for that.
0.684 days = 16.416 hrs. So 16.416 hrs after midnite is the "pi-est moment". Or if you're measuring from time of last radiation treatment... Well, that's probably early AM next day, so whatever.
Anyway, there's enough leeway and corrections there you can have multiple birthdays, pi-days, 2pi-days, pi-squared-days, etc.
Then if you subtract "tio" ("uncle" in Spanish) from "radiation" you get "radian". So tell an uncle to stay away and you can celebrate a "radian" day, too.
And if you don't have any uncles, tell someone you know named "Bob", because "Bob's your uncle".
Excellent suggestion!
Since we're already past leap day, no adjustment is needed. We can add .14159265... years to March 14, 2016, to find AlliFlowers's "PIrthday". That comes out to May 4, 2016, so mark your calendar. You can compute the time of day as follows: Measure the time between midnight the morning of March 14, 2013 and the time you consider your other birthday moment. For example, if it was noon then that would be 12 hours since midnight. Add that length of time to 4:21pm. That may take you to a time on May 5.
Or tell us what time your other birth was, and we'll do that math for you.
You guys are too funny! The math is way beyond me. But I've marked May 4 on my calendar.
Excellent suggestion!
Since we're already past leap day, no adjustment is needed. We can add .14159265... years to March 14, 2016, to find AlliFlowers's "PIrthday". That comes out to May 4, 2016, so mark your calendar. You can compute the time of day as follows: Measure the time between midnight the morning of March 14, 2013 and the time you consider your other birthday moment. For example, if it was noon then that would be 12 hours since midnight. Add that length of time to 4:21pm. That may take you to a time on May 5.
Or tell us what time your other birth was, and we'll do that math for you.
May 4th? That's Star Wars day!You guys are too funny! The math is way beyond me. But I've marked May 4 on my calendar.
There's no such thing!
Here's today's math puzzle: If you spell out the non-negative integers in English, when do you first come to a use of the letter 'A'?
Zero, one, two, three, four... (no A's so far, but you'll get to some eventually)
Thousand--as in one thousand--comes to mind as seemingly nothing before that contains an 'a' (although I kind of went though the possibilities quickly in my head so might have overlooked something).
You are correct, so you win $3,141,592,653,589,793,238,462.64!
When I select that amount and tell Safari to "Start Speaking", it says "three sextillion, one hundred forty-one quintillion, ...". Which is several orders of magnitude more money than exists in the entire world. Way to go Doc, you just crashed the planet's economy.
Happy Pi Day 2017!
The world record for reciting digits of pi hasn't change in over a year. The record holder is still Suresh Kumar Sharma, who memorized and recited 70,030 digits in October 2015.
If you want to hunt for life on other planets, you need pi. That's because planets with human-type life need densities in a certain range, and density can be computed as the ratio of (3 times the planet's mass) and (4 times the cube of the planet's radius times pi).
My three favorite types of pie are cherry, peach, and Dutch apple.
The world record for reciting digits of pi hasn't change in over a year. The record holder is still Suresh Kumar Sharma, who memorized and recited 70,030 digits in October 2015.
If you want to hunt for life on other planets, you need pi. That's because planets with human-type life need densities in a certain range, and density can be computed as the ratio of (3 times the planet's mass) and (4 times the cube of the planet's radius times pi).
My three favorite types of pie are cherry, peach, and Dutch apple.
No love for a steak pie?
Out of interest how many digits of pie can you recall?
Anyway happy pie day!
3.1415926 ; all I need for my daily life
On a related side note: another number I will never forget: 1 mole
6.022x10^23
My teacher always asked: what is the weight of 1 mole eggs? I never figured out.
Oh, and of course: Happy Pie Day to Dr. Q and all others.
On a related side note: another number I will never forget: 1 mole
6.022x10^23
My teacher always asked: what is the weight of 1 mole eggs? I never figured out.
Oh, and of course: Happy Pie Day to Dr. Q and all others.