Pi(e) Day [Archive] - Giant in the Playground Forums

sheepofoblivion

2008-03-13, 11:42 PM

Today (March 3) is Pi day!!! (date in american style with dots instead of slashes, I'm not exactly sure if this is how other countries write the date) 3.14!!! Also known as an excuse to eat pie!!!

Celebrate Pi Day!! and record how you did... I got free pie in math class yesterday (because I don't have math today)

Skippy

2008-03-13, 11:46 PM

Jokes

2008-03-14, 12:10 AM

Since when does Pi equal 14.3? Crazy 'Mericans...

Eating Pie anyway...

Harlequin

2008-03-14, 12:25 AM

Crazy is what we Americans do best. It's because they're out to get us. You know...them.

I have algebra today, too bad I took geometry last year, all the geometry teachers go insane for Pi Day 'round these parts. Huh, wonder why I used 'insane' instead of 'crazy.' It's probably because they're out to get us. You know...them.

Hell Puppi

2008-03-14, 12:41 AM

You know...them.

The Umbrella Corporation?
The MIB?
CIA?

...

Scientology?

:smallconfused:

Mattarias, King.

2008-03-14, 12:42 AM

:smallsigh: Aw, man! I missed it again!

Note to self: Look at calendar once in a while...

kpenguin

2008-03-14, 12:42 AM

The pie is a lie! Wait, wrong pastry.

Anyway, I celebrate today more for Einstein's birthday then Pi day, but its a good day all around. Mmmm... so that's why my Chem teacher had us watch that movie on Einstein yesterday...

kpenguin

2008-03-14, 12:43 AM

:smallsigh: Aw, man! I missed it again!

Note to self: Look at calendar once in a while...

No... today (March 14th) is Pi day. Well, its still the 13th where I am on the west coast of the US, but I think its March 14th for the rest of the world.

Raiser Blade

2008-03-14, 01:04 AM

It's still the 13th over here. You silly non californians and your time zones. :smalltongue:

Iudex Fatarum

2008-03-14, 01:22 AM

in China its been pi day for a while
I actually forgot the pi moment 1:59:26 this year
oh well. I am getting a Pie later today to celebrate. it should be fun, none of my co-workers know what pi day is

Mando Knight

2008-03-14, 01:48 AM

Today (March 3) is Pi day!!!

Wow... that is something of an epic date failure there... the day you posted this was not March 3rd, and if you meant the 13th, you need a better approximation for one of math's most famous irrational numbers.

π!

3.1415926535 is the best approximation I can give from memory... I'm so ashamed of my lack of π-knowledge.

The Babylonians had one of the best π approximations in the ancient world, off by 0.5%

Sometime later today, I'm gonna have a piece of apple pie because of this. Maybe it'll have a diameter of e, so it'll have a circumference of πe, or pi(e)!

Archonic Energy

2008-03-14, 04:44 AM

but...
pi isn't 14.3

:smalltongue:

Emperor Ing

2008-03-14, 04:51 AM

Pi(e) day is march 14. 3/14/<year>
it only makes sense. :smallsmile:

its appaling to know what some people don't know.

Archonic Energy

2008-03-14, 05:22 AM

its appaling to know what some people don't know.

it's appaling to think that everyone goes by the american date system. :smalltongue:

14th March is 14/3/2008

Emperor Ing

2008-03-14, 05:26 AM

it's appaling to think that everyone goes by the american date system. :smalltongue:

14th March is 14/3/2008

I assure you, there is a good reason I go by the American date system. :smallamused:
*points to the listed location* pronounce that.

Raeden

2008-03-14, 05:32 AM

I assure you, there is a good reason I go by the American date system. :smallamused:
*points to the listed location* pronounce that.

I just did. Do I get pie now?

Emperor Ing

2008-03-14, 05:35 AM

>_>
<_<
very well.
http://ualr.edu/lasmoller/mathresources/bigpi.gif

Jokes

2008-03-14, 06:32 AM

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3671/bigpibitels4.gif

NOM NOM NOM

Shishnarfne

2008-03-14, 09:04 AM

...and I get to celebrate Pi day, together with Einstein's birthday, by taking a Quantum Mechanics exam. The irony being Albert's notorious inability to accept certain quantum results (for which he laid much of the foundation), and that I am unlikely to see Pi appear in the problems. But wait! I just remembered! We are dealing with spherical potentials, so pi may make an appearance!

Also, the Pi being consumed made me laugh and post, even though the exam starts in roughly... half an hour...:smalleek:

RandomLogic

2008-03-14, 09:09 AM

it's appaling to think that everyone goes by the american date system.

14th March is 14/3/2008

Yeah but 1-12/1-31/0-XXXXXXXX I mean come on! Just think about the ranges of numbers! why put the date ahead? ;)

But yeah, Pi day! woot. Our math teacher in high school bought pies for the class back in the day.

SilentNight

2008-03-14, 09:21 AM

I will be celebrating pi day in spirit since I won't have any pie. I do love my pie though. Yay strawberry rhubarb.:smallbiggrin:

Freshmeat

2008-03-14, 11:30 AM

http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpi.jpg

Mattarias, King.

2008-03-14, 02:28 PM

Oh.. Yay, I didn't miss it! :smallbiggrin:

Onward! to celebration!
/charge

Castaras

2008-03-14, 03:09 PM

Yay pie!

And pi!

I will celebrate this day by wearing my special Castaras/<pi symbol> t-shirt. ^.^

Maybe I should get a picture...

blackfox

2008-03-14, 03:21 PM

Pi day is a big celebration at my school. The Math Honors Society, which must have at least 100 people in it, bring in three pies each and hand out pie for free during lunch. There's a pi recitation competition as well.

SurlySeraph

2008-03-14, 03:31 PM

We celebrated by having a calculus test. First period. On finding volumes with integrals. Plenty of pi on that.

I have not yet had any actual pie today, though.

The Umbrella Corporation?
The MIB?
CIA?

...

Scientology?

:smallconfused:

All of the above.

Pyro

2008-03-14, 03:39 PM

I love pi(e) day. Its the best excuse to use math to eat pie. Math is awesome and so is pie which means pi day is awesome^2.

Skippy

2008-03-14, 05:36 PM

http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpi.jpg

Is not. e is the loneliest number. Even if he is integrated, it's just the same...

unstattedCommoner

2008-03-14, 06:19 PM

e's friends are imaginary. He's quite a complex character.

Ettlesby

2008-03-14, 06:47 PM

I would've thought that my Geometry class, of all things, would have celebrated Pi day but they didn't, even though most other math classes did...

I'm disappointed.

bibliophile

2008-03-14, 07:07 PM

i is e and pi's imaginary friend

Gem Flower

2008-03-14, 07:10 PM

Errr, it's March Break here. Do you have that in the rest of the world? I mostly know about it 'cuz a counsellor at my camp mentioned it.:smallredface:

Szilard

2008-03-15, 12:09 AM

On 3/14, my freind was born at 1:59, so 3.14159!:smalltongue:

WhatIsGravity

2008-03-15, 12:38 AM

Pi Day should be the 22nd of July.

Szilard

2008-03-15, 09:26 AM

7.22? how is that pi?

Dallas-Dakota

2008-03-15, 09:28 AM

When I saw the title of this thread I thought : We should get Castaras here...

Anyway... *eats pie and pi*

dish

2008-03-15, 09:57 AM

7.22? how is that pi?

The 22nd of July (22/7 when written in the European system) is one option available for the celebration of 'Pi approximation day (http://www.answers.com/topic/pi-day)'.

It's just not as popular as the American version. (And you've got Einstein's birthday too. Just not fair. :smalltongue: )

Completely by chance I cooked two pies yesterday: a vegetarian cottage pie and a mincemeat pie (you could call it a mincemeat tart, but it's close enough to a pie).

unstattedCommoner

2008-03-15, 01:10 PM

03:14 15/9/2654

LightWraith

2008-03-15, 01:25 PM

03:14 15/9/2654

We've still got a while to go for that one.

My Trigonometry professor didn't even mention Pi Day.

Odd since she actually does not allow us to find approximations of anything, so no calculators and a LOT of Pi in all of our work.

Bitzeralisis

2008-03-15, 04:26 PM

We have a thread for pi day? Well, at my school, we had a pi day event (recommended to the ASB by the Math Club, which I am th president of) where people got to throw whipped cream pies at teachers. It was the most popular event in the history of all the years I've been at that school. I've never seen so many people crowded around in the courtyard.

...

Lol, a pie with a circumference of e. Pie. That is made of pure math and win. :smallbiggrin:

Em Blackleaf

2008-03-15, 09:50 PM

Nychta

2008-03-15, 10:09 PM

I got free pie in math class on pi day too! Which is cool, because I'm in geometry and I'm in the section about circles. So... yay pie! :smallbiggrin:

My math teacher in sixth grade used to say "Cherry pie is delicious, apple pies are too."

C=Pid A=Pir^2

... I think. >.<

Sure, that's right =] I LOVE PIE. Though not Pi. Because working out surfaces and volumes of anything remotely spherical or circular makes me gag.

Eita

2008-03-15, 10:27 PM

I missed Pi day? Aww...

Also, I kinda wish I was alive in 1592 so I could celebrate 3/14/1592. Pi year!

Moltensaffire

2008-03-15, 10:30 PM

OMG, I completely forgot Pi day!! Happy belated Pi day everybody!

*goes off to get pie...better late than never*

^.~

Molten

(PS, please click on dragon eggs!)

unstattedCommoner

2008-03-16, 05:58 AM

Lol, a pie with a diameter of e. Pie. That is made of pure math and win. :smallbiggrin:

Fixed. :smallbiggrin:

Szilard

2008-03-16, 11:17 AM

The 22nd of July (22/7 when written in the European system) is one option available for the celebration of 'Pi approximation day (http://www.answers.com/topic/pi-day)'.

It's just not as popular as the American version. (And you've got Einstein's birthday too. Just not fair. :smalltongue: )

Completely by chance I cooked two pies yesterday: a vegetarian cottage pie and a mincemeat pie (you could call it a mincemeat tart, but it's close enough to a pie).

I was also going to comment about 22.7 or 2.27, but I decided it wasn't worth the trouble because neither of those were pi either, but okay.