Comments on: An Amazing Truth for Pi Day https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/ Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:44:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 By: Lofty https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/#comment-9505 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:44:52 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=19530#comment-9505 14/3 being the actual date in the post, not the number pi. Sheesh! On the twenty-second of July I may indeed have some pi that I’ve had my square-root-of-minus-one on.
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Totally on topic, I once saw a news article reporting on a student savant who had reputedly memorised the value of pi to some humungous number of digits. Trouble was, the accompanying photo showed said nerd had written 3.1428571 and then he stopped. Ha ha. I too could write down 22/7 until my arm fell off. Big deal.

]]> By: Xanthë, chronic tuck https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/#comment-9504 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:23:03 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=19530#comment-9504 This isn’t original, but imagine a pizza of radius z, with the height of base and toppings equal to a. Then,

volume = pi · z · z · a

(I’m using the dot product for multiplication rather than the × symbol, since that would make the thing look like ‘pixzxzxa’ which is a pretty lousy word! ;) )

]]> By: movablebooklady https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/#comment-9503 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:59:59 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=19530#comment-9503 From my Tarheel schooldays: pie are not square, cornbread are square.

]]> By: A Hermit https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/#comment-9502 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:48:25 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=19530#comment-9502 Someone tried to tell me pie r squared. Pie r NOT square. Pie r round. Cake r square…

]]> By: Scr... Archivist https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/#comment-9501 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:36:54 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=19530#comment-9501 Lofty, that just gives you an oblique epi-phenomenon.

]]> By: rq https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/#comment-9500 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:42:44 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=19530#comment-9500 *giggle* Pi is backwards pie. No wonder it makes such a mess of things. Just pie would make things a lot simpler. Would you like half a pie or a sixth of a pie on that graph? Apple or blueberry?
/nonsense

]]> By: richardelguru https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/#comment-9499 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:10:59 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=19530#comment-9499 btw
@ Lofty Do they now? 14/3? That seems wildly inaccurate. Sure it wasn’t in Indiana?? :-)

When I went to school (50s-mid 60s) in the UK (and Uni too) it was always 22/7

]]> By: richardelguru https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/#comment-9498 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:02:00 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=19530#comment-9498 Especially since it’s actually written 22/7.
 
It’s always struck me as really, really weird and illogical the way we do dates over here (I started out over there where it’s done rather better).
 
Month, day, year!?? Why not do minutes, seconds, hours too for the consistency???
 
The Japanese (and the Unixies) do it properly: year, month, day, hour, minute, second…

]]> By: Xanthë, chronic tuck https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/#comment-9497 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:47:01 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=19530#comment-9497 Lofty, perhaps you’re thinking of July 22 for the rest of us Anglophiles… (and it’s a slightly closer approximation than 3.14!)

But that would be a very long time extra to have to wait for pie.

]]> By: Lofty https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2013/03/14/an-amazing-truth-for-pi-day/#comment-9496 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:14:03 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=19530#comment-9496 Only in US-centric countries. English tradition makes it 14/3. So I have to do without Pi for dessert. Enjoy your American Pi. ;-)

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