Comments on: Here's a slice of π

Here's a slice of π

moonbird — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:22:49 -0800

Celebrate π. Sing about π. Wear π. Learn the digits of π. Watch the wonder of π. Be vexed by the implications of π. Get slightly embarrassed for π. Give all your love to π. Happy Pi Day. Nerds rule!

By: moonbird

moonbird — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:25:00 -0800

Incidentally, this thread number can be found within the first 100,000 digits of π.

By: furtive

furtive — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:26:49 -0800

'cause today is 3.14 if your calendar happens to work that way.

By: Dagobert

Dagobert — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:33:37 -0800

I cornered the cook at my chow hall to make sure they had pie today. I had 3.14 pieces of it. mmmmm, blueberry...

By: papercake

papercake — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:35:21 -0800

Reading this post was like getting a pi in the face.

By: cribcage

cribcage — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:42:51 -0800

MIT sells a T-shirt that reads, "Cutie π."

By: pax digita

pax digita — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:44:54 -0800

I remember from HS days the joke about the formula for the area of a circle: Pie are square? No, pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:45:03 -0800

furtive: "'cause today is 3.14 if your calendar happens to work that way." You furriners are better off waiting until 22/7 and then making your own FPP at that time. It's more accurate, anyhow. [self-link]

By: sindark

sindark — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:45:08 -0800

It is terribly confusing to write dates as month.day.year. It just seems so counterintuitive; furthermore, it makes it perpetually ambiguous whenever a date is expressed in numerical form and one number is not greater than twelve.

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:52:39 -0800

It is terribly confusing to write dates as day.month.year. It just seems so counterintuitive; furthermore, it makes it perpetually ambiguous whenever a date is expressed in numerical form and one number is not greater than twelve.

By: escabeche

escabeche — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:56:08 -0800

pi is overrated; 2 pi i should have gotten the glory.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:58:00 -0800

Dates a most properly expressed as year-month-day, which puts the most significant figures on the left, where they belong. That makes today 2007-03-14...and there's pi!

By: notsnot

notsnot — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:58:08 -0800

Freaky. Your first link, on the Missouri Botanical Gardens website, is where I'm going after work, and I took MEGS classes as a kid.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:19:26 -0800

notsnot: pi as divination tool

By: three blind mice

three blind mice — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:19:58 -0800

Does Hallmark have a card for this?

By: TheDonF

TheDonF — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:23:52 -0800

Is this where I insert a link to my favourite Weebl episode, or is that no longer the done thing?

By: eriko

eriko — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:29:38 -0800

Geeks my ass. Where the hell were you on February 7th?

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:34:47 -0800

I'm dismayed that most online base-conversion utilities don't go above 36 (or in a few rare cases 64). I was hoping to throw 59428 in front of a truck and see what happened. Brief thoughts on date formats from Language Log.

By: mkb

mkb — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:41:52 -0800

You don't want to eat 3.14 slices of pie on π day. You really want to eat half a pie, which is π radians.

By: nzero

nzero — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:42:31 -0800

Geeks my ass. Where the hell were you on February 7th? What's the significance of 2.07? (Or perhaps you were thinking of February 71st?)

By: Plutor

Plutor — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:45:36 -0800

*marks February 718281828459045th on his calendar*

By: contessa

contessa — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:46:49 -0800

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:48:07 -0800

I bought a pie for my office. Amazingly, its circumference is its diameter multiplied by π!

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:08:25 -0800

Metafilter threads with 314 comments.

By: Lord Kinbote

Lord Kinbote — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:09:01 -0800

We shoulda celebrated on March 14, 1592!

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:13:32 -0800

We shoulda celebrated on March 14, 1592! posted by Lord Kinbote at 10:09 AM EST on March 14 We did. You missed it. It was awesome. We had pie. Anyhoo, does anyone know of a formula that relates e, pi, and phi (the golden ratio)? I seem to recall something about a brick, but the google it does nothing...

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:14:50 -0800

Play pi.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:18:28 -0800

Ugh, never mind, I found it. The ratio of the surface area of a brick with sides of lengths 1, Phi=1·61803... and phi=1/Phi=0·61803 and the bounding sphere that surrounds it is Phi/pi.

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:21:34 -0800

And now I realize that my earlier comment above links the same thread twice, which means there is only one thread with 314 comments. Why does google hate me?

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:25:21 -0800

Thread 31415

By: 314/

314/ — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:33:48 -0800

By the way, it's also Dr. Einstein's birthday. Happy Birthday, Albert!

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:02:32 -0800

March has the best unholidays. Army Day: 3/4 Pi Day: 3/14 Ides of March: 3/15 So much nerdly snickering!

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:07:06 -0800

Pi recipes.

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:08:58 -0800

Your favorite date format sucks.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:11:11 -0800

Alas, nothing notable seems to have happened on March 14 in 1592. But it was a Saturday. Surely somebody ate pie that day.

By: nzero

nzero — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:21:00 -0800

*marks February 718281828459045th on his calendar* Haha. How about July 19?

By: everichon

everichon — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:22:51 -0800

I made a hasty, printable greeting card, if there's anyone you want to render uncomfortable with your nerdly enthusiasms.

By: Benny Andajetz

Benny Andajetz — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:33:39 -0800

When come back, bring Π.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:55:06 -0800

March has the best unholidays. Yesterday was pretty 13/3/7 too.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:03:25 -0800

pi is exactly three!

By: horseblind

horseblind — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:14:39 -0800

is Π intentionally flipped horizontally on the greeting card? I printed it so I can be creepy stalker guy and then noticed that little feature.

By: everichon

everichon — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:16:57 -0800

is Π intentionally flipped horizontally on the greeting card? Ook, didn't notice that. I am handing in my pocket protector and sliderule.

By: horseblind

horseblind — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:30:21 -0800

Maybe I should just bake her some Π.

By: horseblind

horseblind — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:43:34 -0800

btw, I really do like the card anyway. Not that you needed my approval. (just sayin...)

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:46:10 -0800

Mmmm... pi.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:07:22 -0800

Two people in my office showed up wearing PI t-shirts today and because of this posting in Mefi, I didn't have to ask them why.

By: malocchio

malocchio — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:08:45 -0800

When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun...

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:18:39 -0800

Alas, nothing notable seems to have happened on March 14 in 1592. Π was important to the feudal lords of the day - for example, to establish properly-sized living quarters for their servants. How else, after all, are you going to compute a serf's area?

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:27:44 -0800

I used to work at a place where they had an annual party celebrating this. I only showed up for the round foods. Yum! Free pie!

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:49:23 -0800

In City of Heroes, you can pick any greek alphabet letter to put on your character's chest... except for pi. I've yet to figure out the why behind it. Maybe someone owns the copyright on it, cuz you can't put a bat on your chest either.

By: inconsequentialist

inconsequentialist — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:06:44 -0800

I posted an AskMe question about this before but, when I was in sixth grade, we had to memorize 52 digits of pi. It was one of the class requirements. I have no idea why our teacher wanted us to do this. In any case, I still remember and can recite 25 digits, a skill I find remarkably useful in day to day situations.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:37:47 -0800

I get so fucking tired of people pronouncing it wrong. It's not pronounced "pie," you douchebags. It's "pee." It's a Greek letter. It's not that fucking hard.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:39:35 -0800

papercake: "Reading this post was like getting a pi in the face." Now that's fairly disgusting.

By: cribcage

cribcage — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:59:37 -0800

It's not pronounced "pie," you douchebags. It's "pee." Aw, go beg a question.

By: Green Eyed Monster

Green Eyed Monster — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:09:35 -0800

mmm.... pee.... oh, I mean mmmm... pie.

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:53:03 -0800

It's not pronounced "pie," you douchebags. It's "pee." I think it is now your civic duty to do some Wikipedia editing. To deliver us from douchebaggery.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:14:14 -0800

I'll wait for July 22nd, thanks.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:50:05 -0800

Apparently, there's also a pi cologne. I wonder what, exactly, math smells like. Perhaps it's best not to know.