Celebrate Pi Day with Funny Pi Jokes!

In summary, the conversation is about Pi jokes and the different ways mathematicians, physicists, and engineers measure the volume of a rubber ball. A mathematician uses a measuring tape and calculations, a physicist uses water displacement, and an engineer looks up the serial number. The conversation also includes various ways of writing the date, such as in European format or with an attitude.
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Happy Pi Day: Pi jokes!

A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer are all given identical
rubber balls and told to find the volume. They are given anything they
want to measure it, and have all the time they need.

The mathematician pulls out a measuring tape and records the circumference. He then divides by two times pi to get the radius, cubes that, multiplies by pi again, and then multiplies by four-thirds and thereby calculates the volume.

The physicist gets a bucket of water, places 1.00000 gallons of water in the bucket, drops in the ball, and measures the displacement to six significant figures.

And the engineer writes down the serial number of the ball, and looks it up.Question: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?
Answer: Pumpkin Pi!

Question: What do you get when you take the moon and divide its circumference by its diameter?
Answer: Pi in the sky.

Question: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice cream by its diameter?
Answer: Pi a’la mode.
 
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Have you noticed that if a pizza has a depth ##a## and a radius ##z##, the volume is ##pi\cdot z\cdot z \cdot a## ?
 
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collinsmark said:

I like his title: Standup Mathematician.
 
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BillTre said:
I like his title: Standup Mathematician.

We don't have PI day as there is no 14th month.
 
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Maybe a star date (calling star trek geeks!)?
 
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Happy Approximate Pi Day!
 
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Vanadium 50 said:
Happy Approximate Pi Day!
Pi = 0.0001574...?
 
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Write it like a European.
 
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Octobrucember 7?
 
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Vanadium 50 said:
Write it like a European.
Write it with an attitude?
 
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