Celebrate Pi Day with Funny Pi Jokes!

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This forum discussion celebrates Pi Day with a collection of humorous pi-related jokes and anecdotes. It features a comparison of methods used by a mathematician, physicist, and engineer to calculate the volume of a rubber ball, highlighting the differences in their approaches. The conversation includes playful questions and answers about pi, such as "What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?" with the punchline "Pumpkin Pi!" The discussion also touches on the concept of date formats and playful interpretations of pi.

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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!)?
 
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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Vanadium 50 said:
Write it like a European.
Write it with an attitude?
 
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