Happy Pi Day!

John Steinberg wrote:
Yes, March 14, Pi Day!

Today we all join in and celebrate that transcendental mathematical
constant, pi!

Who doesn't love pi!?

Soak in some pi history he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi


One man's definition of pi (from Godling's Glossary, by Dave Krieger):

Pi

1.The Greek letter P or p, corresponding to the roman p.

2.A number, represented by said letter, expressing the ratio of the
circumference of a perfect circle to its diameter. The value of pi has
been calculated to many millions of decimal places, to no readily
apparent purpose: no perfect circles or spheres exist in nature, since
matter is composed of atoms and therefore lumpy, not smooth. Nature
herself sometimes takes to rounding off the more extreme decimals of
numbers when they get sufficiently small, as Prof. Heisenberg has
pointed out. However, the continued extension of pi provides a harmless
exercise of computer power which would otherwise be misused playing
Quake or surfing pointless web sites.


How important is pi in astronomy?

Are kidding me!? Hello!?

Did you know that March 14 is also Albert Einstein's birthday?

Celebrate Pi Day with some pie, pizza, key lime, apple, kiwi or pumpkin!

Have a great Pi Day, people!


My sister made me a pie in a square cake pan once. In
the crust was engraved "pi r^2".

Sam Wormley wrote:
John Steinberg wrote:
Yes, March 14, Pi Day!

Today we all join in and celebrate that transcendental mathematical
constant, pi!

Who doesn't love pi!?

Soak in some pi history he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi


One man's definition of pi (from Godling's Glossary, by Dave Krieger):

Pi

1.The Greek letter P or p, corresponding to the roman p.

2.A number, represented by said letter, expressing the ratio of the
circumference of a perfect circle to its diameter. The value of pi has
been calculated to many millions of decimal places, to no readily
apparent purpose: no perfect circles or spheres exist in nature, since
matter is composed of atoms and therefore lumpy, not smooth. Nature
herself sometimes takes to rounding off the more extreme decimals of
numbers when they get sufficiently small, as Prof. Heisenberg has
pointed out. However, the continued extension of pi provides a harmless
exercise of computer power which would otherwise be misused playing
Quake or surfing pointless web sites.


How important is pi in astronomy?

Are kidding me!? Hello!?

Did you know that March 14 is also Albert Einstein's birthday?

Celebrate Pi Day with some pie, pizza, key lime, apple, kiwi or pumpkin!

Have a great Pi Day, people!


My sister made me a pie in a square cake pan once. In
the crust was engraved "pi r^2".

I was nearly as guilty of the pun, as I baked an apple pie, a year ago,
for one of those things that starts in a bar... you know, like one guy
says he's going to get some take out, another says, "what, can't you
cook?" t'other sez "I can cook very well, thank you, I just want to get
take out because I'm tired" Next thing you know the (very cagey)
bartender has us squaring off in an apple pie baking contest. I
engraved a pi in my crust as a finishing touch.

Oh, yeah, and I whupped his a** :-)

"Sam Wormley" wrote in message
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John Steinberg wrote:
Yes, March 14, Pi Day! Today we all join in and celebrate that
transcendental mathematical
constant, pi!

Who doesn't love pi!?

Soak in some pi history he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

One man's definition of pi (from Godling's Glossary, by Dave
Krieger):

Pi

1.The Greek letter P or p, corresponding to the roman p. 2.A number,
represented by said letter, expressing the ratio of the
circumference of a perfect circle to its diameter. The value of pi has
been calculated to many millions of decimal places, to no readily
apparent purpose: no perfect circles or spheres exist in nature, since
matter is composed of atoms and therefore lumpy, not smooth. Nature
herself sometimes takes to rounding off the more extreme decimals of
numbers when they get sufficiently small, as Prof. Heisenberg has
pointed out. However, the continued extension of pi provides a harmless
exercise of computer power which would otherwise be misused playing
Quake or surfing pointless web sites.


How important is pi in astronomy?

Are kidding me!? Hello!? Did you know that March 14 is also Albert
Einstein's birthday?

Celebrate Pi Day with some pie, pizza, key lime, apple, kiwi or pumpkin!

Have a great Pi Day, people!


My sister made me a pie in a square cake pan once. In
the crust was engraved "pi r^2".



No doubt, this will be over Steinberg's head, but since he's with the rest
of the detritus in the killfile, who CARES???
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On 2006-03-14, Sam Wormley wrote:

My sister made me a pie in a square cake pan once. In
the crust was engraved "pi r^2".

Cornbread are square, pie are round. (Except cornbread also is round
when you make it in a cast iron skillet, the way you're supposed to.)

--
The night is just the shadow of the Earth.