Happy Pi day!

[TJ09]

I use pi-agm, the comp is Linux. It calculates pretty fast, but I haven't been running it lately. I should start it up again.

EDIT: Started, it'll take a while for the next increment, though.

Anyways, I almost wish my birthday was today, but my birthday is perfectly situated after Christmas, so that my parents buy stuff at Christmas sales but don't complain that I got a ton of stuff for Christmas.

[Conor Ryan]

In honor of Pi day you can celebrate by....benchmarking your computer!

Yes! You can run a program called Super Pi which simply benchmarks your computer by calculating the value of Pi! No, by any means its not a powerful benchmarker like PCmark05 or 3D-Mark06, but what other benchmarking program lets you calculate up to 32 Million Digits of Pi and then save it as a .txt for later viewing?

Happy Pi day!

[Mr. Freeman]

In other news, today's lotto numbers are 14, 15, 92, 65, 35, 89 and the powerball is 3.

[karinka13]

my school celebrates pi day!!

we had a pi writing contest... you had to put a word in for each digit of pi containing as many letters as the digit was adn see how far you could get with a story that actually made sense. the girl that won wrote something like 150 words.

then the cafeteria made apple pie, and i went to physics class.

[Greg Marra]

This reminds me of a content I had thought up.

Pi Eating Contest

The Pi Eating Contest will be a competition of both brain and brawn, stamina and smarts, deduction and digestion. The rules are simple. Each player will be placed in front of a table containing cupcakes with digits “0″ through “9″ frosted onto them. There will be approximately ten of each digit, meaning each contestant will have one hundred cupcakes in front of them.

Normally, an eating competition is to see who can eat a set quantity of food the fastest. Eating food quickly is boring. Each player will not only have to eat a bunch of cupcakes, they will have to eat the cupcakes in order of the consecutive digits of pi. So first you must eat a “3″ cupcake, then a “1″ cupcake, then “4″ cupcake. As you eat farther and farther, you may lose track of where in pi you are, or become so sick that you cannot remember the next digit. Since this is as much a contest of memory as stomach capacity, contestants will wear noise canceling headphones with loud music playing to prevent them from hearing the audience.

The winner is the one who can eat the most consecutive cupcakes without going out of the order of pi or becoming sick. The best part is, since pi isn’t uniformly distributed early on (http://www.mathwithmrherte.com/pi_distribution.htm), there are plenty of cupcakes for the spectators to eat afterwards!

Unfortunately, today I am home sick and cannot eat any pi

[irishninja]

Just think in 1592 it was 3/14/1592 and in six years it will be 3/14/15

[gondorf]

pi day... my favorite day of the year. i wait for this day all year long. now for the pi day survey question: how many different ways can you use pi?

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by irishninja

in six years it will be 3/14/15

six years? i thought it was 9...(assuming this IS, in fact 2006)
3/14/15 at 9:26:53!

[coldabert]

pi=10^0.

the 9339th digits of pi are 888

kind of makes you wonder...

[AmayaSaria]

Happy Pi day everyone!

[DCA Fan]

Happy PI Day everyone!

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by coldabert

pi=10^0.

the 9339th digits of pi are 888

kind of makes you wonder...

an interesting proof about Pi is that any given sequence of numbers (1234 for example) will appear the exact same number of times as any other sequence (5678) with the same number of digits. (this isn't explicitly what the proof says, but i'm pretty sure you can continue it to prove that) I'm unsure, but i think this may be true for any irrational number. I couldn't be bothered to attempt a formal proof so far.

[SugaRaXie]

haha...happy pi day! even though I'm like...3 hrs late. Since I'm off for March Break at the moment -- in honour of Pi Day I made Pie haha...yeah...awesome.

[Tyler 783]

Yep the math faculty at the University of waterloo hands out t-shirts that say mmm.... pi on the front and have pi to the first 10000 or so digits on the back. They hand them out at 1:59 on the second floor of the math building, they also get some more digits in there somehow but I still haven't figured out how.

[sw293]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

an interesting proof about Pi is that any given sequence of numbers (1234 for example) will appear the exact same number of times as any other sequence (5678) with the same number of digits. (this isn't explicitly what the proof says, but i'm pretty sure you can continue it to prove that) I'm unsure, but i think this may be true for any irrational number. I couldn't be bothered to attempt a formal proof so far.

Hmm...

Consider:
.15115111511115111115111111511111115...

This is clearly not generated by random digits but I don't think it's rational.