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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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Chris Oliver 
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Yesterday: Pi Day!
Today: Ides Of March! Beware!
Note: Ides of March is from Julius Caesar which I am studying right now in English.
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15 March 2005, 21:43 GMT
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Happy Pi Day!
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CajunLuke
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3/14
Births
1833 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first woman dentist.
1854 - Paul Ehrlich, 1908 Nobel Prize for medicine, invented chemotherapy.
1864 - (John Luther) Casey Jones, American railroad engineer.
1879 - Albert Einstein, physics genius.
1912 - Les Brown, bandleader.
3/15
Births
1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (1829-1837).
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, US Supreme Court Justice.
Deaths
44 B.C.E. - Roman dictator Julius Caesar, assassinated by a group of 60 conspirators that included Brutus and Cassius.
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16 March 2005, 13:46 GMT
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
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Matt Gardeski
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What's so special about ð, When's e day?
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17 March 2005, 22:05 GMT
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dMb
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I know this is off the subjuct but...
I have a TI83+ BASIC program that takes a 25x25 matrix and turns it into a fully 3d "maze." The graphics are as detailed as GEMINI and it runs at about 1 fps (in BASIC, using combinations of pics)
Everthing was engineered to run as fast as possible. It is definitely groundbreaking-look forward to seeing it soon!
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19 March 2005, 01:03 GMT
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