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Choice Votes   Percent
Yes, it is the most important day of the year 49 22.9%   
Yes, but not that much 77 36.0%   
No, Pi day sucks 45 21.0%   
What is Pi and Pi day? 29 13.6%   
I celebrated my birthday instead 14 6.5%   

Survey posted 2002-03-16 13:51 by Henrik.

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Pi day!
FartComa  Account Info

Did I celebrate Pi day? But of course! A friend and I convinced a teacher to allow us to celebrate Pi day instead of doing calculus. Almost everybody in calculus brought pies to class. I also printed out the first one million digits of Pi and brought it to class :o

I was seriously more excited about Pi day than Christmas :)

Reply to this comment    16 March 2002, 23:22 GMT

Re: Pi day!
Paul Joyner  Account Info

You lucky SOB! My teacher wouldn't let us celebrate pi day if we put a gun to her head. I doesn't matter to me, though. I got to go on a field trip and skip her dumb Algebra class.

Reply to this comment    16 March 2002, 23:45 GMT


Re: Pi day!
nolekid  Account Info

I asked my math teacher if we could bring in pies in like January but he just kind of smirked at me; then I totally forgot it was pi day last thursday until I got an email from this non-calculator math forum reminding the group. Oh well. thursday was also the last day of our 3rd quarter (friday was planning day; next week is spring break) so we basically did nothing all day anyway.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2002, 03:33 GMT

Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
Toad

yea!!!!! I love pi day!! I was waiting for it for weeks!!!!!! 3.141592653589 793238462643383279 50288419716939937510... I memorized the first 50+ digits of pi! pi is the best!!!

Reply to this comment    17 March 2002, 03:34 GMT

Re: Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
Kyle Larson Account Info

I got you beat. I have the first 150 digits memorized. I love pi.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2002, 05:12 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
NulcearCheese  Account Info

I've beat you both. I have about 420 digits in my memory. I've also heard there are people who have memorized thousands.

Pi rules, and memorizing pi is just as cool.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2002, 20:28 GMT

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Chickendude  Account Info

Oh yeah? Well I... uhh... uhm... I have the first digit memorized! Betcha can't beat that! (I actually, I have more than that memorized, somewhere around 50)

Reply to this comment    18 March 2002, 02:07 GMT


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Soth Account Info

Hey have troblem remembering my own name. (No kidding I even got it wrong in an exam once.)

Now where am I?

Reply to this comment    18 March 2002, 11:32 GMT


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Soth Account Info

sorry that should have been trouble

Reply to this comment    18 March 2002, 15:17 GMT


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no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

, and you can't even type! You have a tough life...

Reply to this comment    22 March 2002, 02:19 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
canteloupe32 Account Info
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I have beat all of you in a sentence. Who needs to memorize Pi? I keep 3 million digits with me at all times, and a little under 7 million on my website! I of course used my school's ink to print it, though.

Reply to this comment    19 March 2002, 00:34 GMT


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NulcearCheese  Account Info

If I wanted to, I could download and print out the first four billion or so digits of pi, but what does that matter? Memorizing the digits is a lot more fun (and a great way to kill some time)!

Reply to this comment    19 March 2002, 03:41 GMT


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Chickendude  Account Info

I prefer to pass time, not kill it.

Reply to this comment    19 March 2002, 22:35 GMT


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Soth Account Info

Anyway 3.14159 is more than accurate enough for most calculations. - Especially given the way that precise numbers can often be thrown out the window when making real systems. - approximations will do.

Reply to this comment    20 March 2002, 11:26 GMT


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nolekid  Account Info

there is this one guy from texas whose sn is actually "piguy31415926" and it's not pig-(g)uy

Reply to this comment    20 March 2002, 19:44 GMT


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no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

darn, I'm a little bit more than half what you got (boy, that was confusing!)

Reply to this comment    22 March 2002, 02:18 GMT


Re: Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
Toad

hmm... do they have something in like the guinness book of world records who memorized the most digits of pi... if they don't, they should... lol

Reply to this comment    19 March 2002, 08:06 GMT

Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
pollpo
(Web Page)

What don't we celebrate e day? Doesn't e = 2.18 something or another? We can celebrate that too.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2002, 05:14 GMT

Re: Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
Michael Vincent  Account Info
(Web Page)

I do. It's 2.718281828459045235360287471352 approximately. That means April 13 (I believe) this year is e Day.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2002, 06:43 GMT


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tge82  Account Info

Huh? Where do you get April 13 from that number?

Reply to this comment    17 March 2002, 07:35 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
tge82  Account Info

Oh, never mind, I figured it out now. It's February 1 plus 71 more days.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2002, 07:42 GMT


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rmohr02 Account Info
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I always thought it was July 2--using the method the rest of the world uses for numbering dates, which makes much more sense than the U.S.'s:

Day/Month/Year or 2/7/YEAR

Reply to this comment    17 March 2002, 22:40 GMT


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Soth Account Info

Good call. - but is it 2/7 or 27/1 -or what ever the last number was - can't remember.

Reply to this comment    18 March 2002, 11:34 GMT


Re: Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
canteloupe32 Account Info
(Web Page)

e day doesn't have a catchy name. And it is not a greek symbol. I'm still not sure how the whole Pi day thing got started, of course, I know why it is on the certain date, but what nerd inverted this crazy Mathiday (see above comment for explaination). No offense to nerds, I'm one my self.

Reply to this comment    19 March 2002, 00:57 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
Michael Vincent  Account Info
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No one needed to invent it, merely celebrate it :)

Reply to this comment    19 March 2002, 14:11 GMT


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Chickendude  Account Info

e day sounds like ebay

Reply to this comment    19 March 2002, 22:37 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

What about

((pi^2)+3)/5+e day?

Reply to this comment    22 March 2002, 02:22 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Did you celebrate Pi day?
Mikhail Lavrov

or e^(pi*i)+1 day?

Reply to this comment    8 March 2003, 00:17 GMT

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