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Pi Day: Circle Your Calendar -- Once-in-a-Century Day Coming This Weekend
Mar 14, 2015, 10:07 AM ET
By PAUL H.B. SHIN
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Circle around, math fans. There's a once-in-a-century Pi Day coming this weekend.
The day that celebrates the mathematical constant pi is Saturday. And because it's 2015, this particular sequence of numbers in the calendar that matches pi -- 3/14/15 -- won't come around for another century.
While the mathematical constant, which represents the ratio of circumference of a circle divided by its diameter, is often abbreviated as 3.14 for convenience, pi actually has an infinite number of digits beyond the decimal point, starting with 3.141592653.
So, expect a good deal of celebration at 9:26 a.m. at 53 seconds -- with the pastry pie, for obvious phonetic and geometrical reasons.
In fact, there will be a point between 9:26 a.m. 53 seconds and 54 seconds that the clock matches the number pi down to an infinite number of digits.
And as befitting its reputation as an elite institution of math, science and engineering, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced that it will send out its acceptance letters for this year's incoming class on Pi Day, precisely at 9:26 a.m.
That should round out the day -- at least for those accepted.
3/14/15 a day that will live in infinity
3/14/15 a day that will live in infinity
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Re: 3/14/15 a day that will live in infinity
Let it come and pass unnoticed. It's actually 14.03.2015.
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Re: 3/14/15 a day that will live in infinity
real men (tm) use 2015-03-14 as per the iso standard.
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Re: 3/14/15 a day that will live in infinity
As novelist John Green put it, "Some infinities are bigger than other infinities".
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Re: 3/14/15 a day that will live in infinity
Nonc Hilaire wrote:As novelist John Green put it, "Some infinities are bigger than other infinities".
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
Re: 3/14/15 a day that will live in infinity
fwiw, the american "middle endian" habit of mm/dd/yy is one of the most painful and irritating things a computer programmer has to deal with, all day every day it causes confusion and mistakes.
06/07/08 .. ARGH... 3 possible interpretations, all correct, 2 of which are wrong.
its right next to daylight savings and spreadsheets in the retarded ideas that should have been destroyed before they spread category.
06/07/08 .. ARGH... 3 possible interpretations, all correct, 2 of which are wrong.
its right next to daylight savings and spreadsheets in the retarded ideas that should have been destroyed before they spread category.
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