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Pi-day

aeronca65t

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No, not the Apple-type...

A little public service announcement:

This Saturday is March 14th, which is written 3/14 here in the US.

So it's Pi-day (actually, it's 3/14/15 which is even closer to Pi.)

For those who prefer the European (or US military) method of writing Day then Month, you can also consider July 22 (22/7 in the day/month date format) as Pi-day.

My old physics pal, John, likes neither of these and says a much better value, although also just an approximation, is 355/113. It's easy to remember too, if written with the standard division symbol because it appears as 113355.

We live near Princeton which always has a huge Pi-day event on March 14 because it's also Einstein's birthday. Well worth attending. If you go, don't forget to take a picture of yourself in front of 112 Mercer Street (like about 1000 other people).

We won't be able to make it this year because we'll be driving our ~Curved Dash Olds~ replica-buggy in the Morristown St. Patrick's Day parade on Saturday......also a good time! :smile:
 
That is *fascinating*. Always have liked numbers, and always amused someone forgets that "pi" expresses a relationship, not an absolute value.

My brain is unusually dense this morning - could you explain more about " ...just an approximation, is 355/113. It's easy to remember too, if written with the standard division symbol because it appears as 113355."

I'm not following that.


 
So:

_____
113 ) 355

I'm denser than I thought. Isn't that the same as 355/113?

Edit: system won't let me move that horizontal line to sit over the 355. But you get what I mean.
 
This is the stuff you seen on your refrigerator when your wife is a math teacher
wife of  pi.jpg
 
Keith!

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My brother the physics doctorate used to have a shirt in his grad school days,

Pi R squared. No, cake R squared, Pi are round.

Math humor, when the rest go "huh??"...
 
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