Pi Day!

[fearfaoin]

It's Pi Day! Quite possibly the geekiest holiday to date.
On 3/14 at 1:59, everyone eats some pie and, if you're into this
kinda thing, calculates Pi to as many decimals as you can stand.



My company does a pie baking contest every year on this day.
I haven't won yet, but I feel good about my chocolate-covered
cherry cheesecake pie (Not pictured).

[djm]

I think you are mistaken. Everyone is supposed to go for a pee. The challenge is to see how many decimal places you can calculate to before your bladder is empty. This includes waiting for the last few drops, so old men usually win.

djm

[Innocent Bystander]

May I have a large container of coffee, after the heavy chapters involving quantuum mechanics?

[fearfaoin]

May I have a large container of coffee, after the heavy chapters involving quantuum mechanics?

Traditionally, the coffee comes before the cram session, but whatever floats your boat.

[fearfaoin]

Boo. My pie did not bring its A game today. Lost to a Lemon Mirangue.

[Congratulations]

I think you are mistaken. Everyone is supposed to go for a pee. The challenge is to see how many decimal places you can calculate to before your bladder is empty. This includes waiting for the last few drops, so old men usually win.

djm

I was unaware that old-man plumbing worked like that, and now I don't think I'll be quite the same ever again. Thanks, deej.

[crookedtune]

[mutepointe]

I heard on public radion this morning that some kids knocked on the door of a house, asked the lady if she knew about "pi day" then put a pie in her face. they're being charged with assault.

[Caroluna]

I told my mathematician husband about Pi Day.
He rolled his eyes and said "Hmmph. That's irrational."

[dubhlinn]

I think you are mistaken. Everyone is supposed to go for a pee. The challenge is to see how many decimal places you can calculate to before your bladder is empty. This includes waiting for the last few drops, so old men usually win.

djm

I was unaware that old-man plumbing worked like that, and now I don't think I'll be quite the same ever again. Thanks, deej.

Ignorance is Bliss

Slan,
D.

[Walden]

The old farmer asked his son, who'd been away to school, to tell him something he'd learned in class. The son tells him "πr²" to which the farmer replied, "No, son, I believe you got that mixed up. Pie are round. Cornbread are square."

[djm]

And another thing: pie are round, not squared. If it's squared it ain't pie. Who ever came up with "pie are squared"? Ridiculous!

djm

[Innocent Bystander]

How I need a drink, alcoholic of course...

[chas]

calculates Pi to as many decimals as you can stand.

There's a way to figure pi that involves dropping sticks on lines. I can't remember it exactly, but I think you put lines exactly one stick length apart, toss sticks randomly at the lined area, and count what fraction of sticks fall across the lines. The approximation of pi might be something like the ratio of sticks tossed to those crossing lines?

Anyway, when it's time for my daughter to do a science project, I'm thinking that would be fun, and I'll find out the right way to do it.

[Lambchop]

I think you are mistaken. Everyone is supposed to go for a pee. The challenge is to see how many decimal places you can calculate to before your bladder is empty. This includes waiting for the last few drops, so old men usually win.

djm

I was unaware that old-man plumbing worked like that, and now I don't think I'll be quite the same ever again. Thanks, deej.

Wanna hear how they fix it?