[pure geekiness]happy Pi day!

[goldenpeach]

Today, is the day of Pi(not pie, pi:the number).

why? because, it's March third: we can write as 3/14(pi=3.14).

and there's even more: this year is 2015, we can note the day this way: 3/14/15(pi=3.1415).

plus, at 9h26 and 53 seconds, it will the second of Pi of the century: 3/14/15 92h26 and 53 second: pi=3.141592653!

I'm totally going to do a Pi party to celebrate this day, how about you?

[gmpd2000]

Whoa, nice coincidence, someone is making pie near me, I can tell by the smell.

I guess you now know how I'm gonna celebrate.

[K^2]

I'm a little disappointed that this only works out due to silly US date format. I was going to wait for April 31st, but then I realized a flaw in that plan. I guess, I'll celebrate with some cheesecake. It's not a pie, but with above in mind, I find it appropriate.

[Yukon0009]

Pi, pi, pi, pi, pi............

[The_8th_Bit]

I got it down to the second...

[goldenpeach]

me too.

and send a Facebook post at the same time ^^

[Kerbart]

I will be much happier on June 28 when it's Tau day. Had I been aware of Tau in high school, trigonometry would not have been such a disaster.

[lajoswinkler]

I've overslept the actual moment. So let's celebrate with one of the foundations of pie.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pie

[Starwhip]

Heh, Telemundo did a pi-day bit on us at one of our FRC competitions. I was the one who got lifted into the air like a sack of flour to represent the top part of the symbol.

[Guest]

Pi:

[EdFred]

I will be much happier on June 28 when it's Tau day. Had I been aware of Tau in high school, trigonometry would not have been such a disaster.

Perhaps, but who wants to eat tauza?

Everyone loves pizza

where z = r,

pi * z * z = a

[Xannari Ferrows]

Darn it! I missed 1:59 PM... that would've been awesome...

[Robotengineer]

Darn it! I missed 1:59 PM... that would've been awesome...

15 has been taken by the year. 3/14/15. Try again at 9:26:53.

[Xannari Ferrows]

15 has been taken by the year. 3/14/15. Try again at 9:26:53.

I don't use the year in my calender. All the commotion at new years tells me that a number has passed, and just wait for another one. Everyone will lose their minds in the same way.

[Tommygun]

[Bill Phil]

Anyone notice that there's a user called "Pi" and it's his/her birthday today?

[Aanker]

What about the square root of 2, or e?

[stibbons]

Nah, the best day is 22nd of July - Pi Approximation Day.

[Xannari Ferrows]

Or for a bit more nerdery now that Pi day is gone...

N + Z[i - √A]

N = NaN

Z = 1/0

I = ∞

A = Any number below 0.

Have I broken you yet?

Edited March 16, 2015 by Xannari Ferrows

[K^2]

Or for a bit more nerdery now that Pi day is gone...

N + Z[i - √A]

N = NaN

Z = 1/0

I = ∞

A = Any number above 0.

Have I broken you yet?

NaN propagates through any operation, and 1/0 will trip an integer exception. What's your point?

[Xannari Ferrows]

NaN propagates through any operation, and 1/0 will trip an integer exception. What's your point?

Just being silly. It's a joke from math class. Wow, that was a while back...

Halp, Apollo Robbins is keeping me up.

[wumpus]

What about the square root of 2, or e?

I think pi is wildly overated compared to e (Euler's number). Unfortunately, you can only celebrate e to two digits (Feb 7) instead of three (March 14). Other problems include:

No obvious tasty desert: cake only works in comparison to pi (which isn't that bad considering Euler's identity).

No reason to eat half a pie: Since pi is half a circle, it stands to reason that the obvious size of your slice of pie is half of the whole thing. Nothing similar for e.

[ZetaX]

Unfortunately, you can only celebrate e to two digits (Feb 7) instead of three (March 14).

Only if you are one of those people that still think "middle, smallest, largest" is the obvious order of things like dates.

[Sillychris]

I am on board with the Queen's date convention (dd/mm/yy), but nobody outside of math,compsci, and physics circles seems to agree.

How does everyone feel about Tau? (ie 2pi).

It seems like a more natural constant to me.

[ZetaX]

I am on board with the Queen's date convention (dd/mm/yy), but nobody outside of math,compsci, and physics circles seems to agree.

None but all those non-americans...

How does everyone feel about Tau? (ie 2pi).

It seems like a more natural constant to me.

The most natural one would actually be 2 pi i, where i is the imaginary unit (i² = -1). It comes into everything from circuits, functional analysis, complex analysis, number theory, algebra to all things Fourier by being the period of the exponential function exp(x) = e^x. But try convincing all those non-mathematicians and non-theoretical physicists that their beloved pi should be replaced by something that isn't even a real number, but a complex one. Some eletrical engineers may agree, but everything beyond will consider you crazy.