happy Pi Day!

[10metreh]

Originally Posted by stathmk

I hear it's also the Ides of March, the day that one of the Caesars fell.

No it isn't. The Ides of March is the 15th.

[wblipp]

Originally Posted by stathmk

Or it will be March 14, 15,926 at 3/14/15,926

Ray Kurzweil is looking forward to that one.

[Mini-Geek]

Originally Posted by wblipp

Ray Kurzweil is looking forward to that one.

Unless, of course, somebody were to give him multiple stab wounds, cyanide poisoning, an axe buried between his shoulder blades, and also shot him, set him on fire, and crushed him between a forklift and a cement wall, and then tossed him off a high precipice into icy, shark-infested waters.

And the sharks have frikin' laser beams mounted on them.

And followed by a beheading, just in case.

[CRGreathouse]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

And followed by a beheading, just in case.

There can be only one, after all.

[retina]

Originally Posted by CRGreathouse

There can be only one, after all.

Well you could behead the little one first, just for good measure.

[storm5510]

I suppose if one wanted to move the decimal point, you could get 314.15926535897932384626433832795 and take the fractional part to get an exact second. 13,760 seconds past midnight. 3:49:21, rounded. Doesn't matter though. Starting at midnight is just fine.

[ixfd64]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

Unless, of course, somebody were to give him multiple stab wounds, cyanide poisoning, an axe buried between his shoulder blades, and also shot him, set him on fire, and crushed him between a forklift and a cement wall, and then tossed him off a high precipice into icy, shark-infested waters.

And the sharks have frikin' laser beams mounted on them.

And followed by a beheading, just in case.

You forgot one: a roundhouse kick to the face from Chuck Norris.

[davar55]

Unless, of course, somebody were to give him multiple stab wounds, cyanide poisoning, an axe buried between his shoulder blades, and also shot him, set him on fire, and crushed him between a forklift and a cement wall, and then tossed him off a high precipice into icy, shark-infested waters.

And the sharks have frikin' laser beams mounted on them.

And followed by a beheading, just in case.

You forgot one: a roundhouse kick to the face from Chuck Norris.

I thought all that was his definition of "a bad day."

[cheesehead]

Just stumbled across this, in the Cosmic Variance blog:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/co...3/14/phone-pi/

. . .

Several years ago, before pi-day was famous, a student called the phone number associated with the digits in pi that appear after the decimal point, i.e., 1-415-926-5358. Apparently this is rather common now, and in fact, appears to be promoted as a mnemonic for the first 10 decimal places for those folks we need to have those numbers handy at all times. But this story happened in earlier times, back before the Bay Area split into several area codes. And, as the clever reader has already guessed, that student reached the SLAC main gate. How cool to phone pi and reach the main gate of a major national scientific research laboratory!

Alas, time and phone numbers march on, and nowadays phoning pi yields a “your call cannot be completed as dialed” message. ...

[Uncwilly]

http://laughingsquid.com/what-pi-sounds-like/

[Uncwilly]

http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=7362
http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=5602

Neato graphic here:
http://anewdomain.net/2012/03/12/pi-...or-pi-3-14159/