# Happy Pi Day

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Happy Pi Day!!!

hi
wish you all a very happy pi day!!!

murshid_islam said:
hi
wish you all a very happy pi day!!!
Mmmmmmmmmm...Apple pi. :!!)

-Dan

arildno
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Happy pi day to you too, murshad!

ranger
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How come nobody made a fuss for e day back in February?

Happy pi day!!!

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Lisa!
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Happy $\pi = 3.14$ day!

<runs and hides>:uhh:

Would now be a good time to restart the debate about whether we should pass legislation redifining $$\pi=22/7$$? ;)

jim mcnamara
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Cexy -

That's a wonderful suggestion. Because politicians have trouble handling bodily functions on their own, having them mandate transcendental numbers like $$e$$ and $$\pi$$ would be lots of fun....
since "pi are round" we can ask them to round $$\pi = 3.0$$ That's close enuff. :)

Watching that made me a little bit stupider.

You all overlooked 15 hours, 92 minutes and 65.358... seconds - a slice of the pi.

Why is today called Pi Day? A few of my friends were invited to a day of math at one of the schools in our area, but I wasn't invited, and I was wondering why "Pi" has it's own day.

ranger
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wScott said:
Why is today called Pi Day? A few of my friends were invited to a day of math at one of the schools in our area, but I wasn't invited, and I was wondering why "Pi" has it's own day.

I guess since the value of pi is approx. 3.14. And since today just happens to be March 14th (3.14), its called pi day.

Heh...the real "pi day" was actually March 14, 1593
(rounded up '3' from the '6')

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bomba923 said:
Heh...the real "pi day" was actually March 14, 1593
(rounded up '3' from the '6')
According to Wikipedia,
"The "ultimate" pi moment occurred on March 14, 1592, at 6:53 AM and 58 seconds."

More Pi trivia from links at https://www.physicsforums.com/blog/2006/03/13/pi-day/ [Broken]

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