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Happy Pi Day!
Posted by Michael on 14 March 2005, 03:00 GMT
Happy Pi Day! That's right, the most sacred nerd holiday has returned: March 14th, affectionally known as Pi Day to millions of people around the world. Last year we didn't have enough material for a dedicated Pi Day article, but I've managed to collect a few things this time. First, some of you (sadly) may not have yet voraciously scoured the internet for all things pi, and perhaps have not yet seen the awesome Pi-Search Page. You can find the position of your telephone number, social security number, or other fun numeric sequence inside the first 100 million digits of pi.
On the more creative fronts, a few years ago I created a song based upon pi, titled "Lost in Pi Land." Each note (A-G#) corresponds to a particular digit 0-9. Those of you with perfect pitch can transcribe the notes and find out how many decimal places of pi are in the piece. I might just be extremely biased when I say this, but this would make excellent background music for all of your Pi Day parties.
Lastly, we will be having informal Coordinated Pi Shouts in #tcpa on EFNet at 1:59:26 PM in each time zone. If you are not sure of how to get on IRC, please read our IRC page. Remember folks, that's coordinated pi shouting every hour on the :59:26. Once again, have a happy Pi Day and we'll shout "Pi!" together on IRC every hour.
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
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Michael McElroy 
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Blasphemy! Everyone knows that Mole Day is the most sacred nerd holiday!
Besides, PI=4! (obligatory.)
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15 March 2005, 02:58 GMT
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Re: Re: Re: Happy Pi Day!
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sportsman78
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that's a good point Avagadros day should be on June 2nd but then we would also have to have Fibbinochi day on January 12th (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21), Light day on March 8th (3.08*10^23),...
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19 March 2005, 02:11 GMT
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
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Michael McElroy
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"The string 31415926 was found at position 50366472 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted."
That's as close as I could get to repeating pi in the first 2 million digits..
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15 March 2005, 03:03 GMT
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
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Travis Evans
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Shoot! I forgot totally about Pi day until 10 minutes before midnight on March 14. :-(
Well, I'm prepared for next time. My TI-89 has AMS 2.09 with the clock turned on, so I added a check and a reminder for Pi Day to the kbdprgm I use to launch GPShell. Since I do that at least once a day, I'm bound to remember this time. (It also wouldn't hurt to put reminders about Daylight Savings Time and automatically adjust the calc's clock.)
Now if I had just thought of that a year ago...
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15 March 2005, 06:43 GMT
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
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Travis Evans
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I was surprised to find the string "12345678" at the 186557266th position of Pi.
"123456789" wasn't found, though.
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15 March 2005, 06:45 GMT
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