In addition to being Einstein’s birthday, March 14 is also Pi Day: From Yahoo News:
This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known – so far – to be more than one trillion digits long.
They are the acolytes of the church of pi.
And once a year many of them gather to talk about pi, rhapsodize about it, eat pi-themed foods (actual pie, sure, but so much more), have pi recitation contests and, just maybe, feel a little less sheepish about their unusual passion.
That day falls on Wednesday this year: March 14. Or 3.14. Obviously.
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The Exploratorium web site has a page about Pi Day, and a page of pi links.
Click here for a pi poster:
Upon closer examination 350,390 digits of pi are visible. Each line contains 600 digits of pi. The first 440 most commonly recognized digits are visible from a distance.
And finally, a pi song/video. It’s to the tune of Don McLean’s “American Pie. Here’s the web site of the writer. The video only has part of the song, but here’s an mp3 of the the whole song, and this link has the lyrics.
Happy 1 Kings 7:23 Day too đ
Pax
Thirty? THIRTY!? Not 31? Not 31 and 1/2? Not 31 and 3/7? What is wrong with those guys? Couldn’t they count? Last Sunday we layed out the garden, and if I had been off by half a yard, believe me, it would have been NOTICED! (Criticized, too!) Perhaps the molten sea was NOT so round. Maybe it was more of an ellipse? Or an oval? Or something more like a bathtub?
Meanwhile:
So how does a good atheist like Carl Sagan come to propose (in his novel Contact) that pi embeds in its decimal (or even its binary) expansion messages about the architecture of the universe? This is certainly more power, and more deep and subtle power, than God is generally thought to have . . .
Or maybe this is a psychological, not a science-fiction or theological novel, and (Jodie Foster) is actually slipping into paranoia . . .
But if we get to celebrate again in July, then it is all right. đ
You just reminded me of this…
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
Here’s the “official pi day web site”.
http://www.piday.org/
And, just ’cause I felt like it…
no more pi fights for me!
“e”-gads! “i” am not amused!
really though…I am a fan of nice round numbers…I’m confused now.