Survey posted 2008-03-12 21:00 by Astrid.

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All praise be to Pi and pie of course

I agree with pie being amazing...but can someone tell me why we're celebrating pi? Sorry if I'm naive, but I'm only in Geometry right now. :)

the date is 3/14/08. Pi is a number that relates to the circumference and areas of circles, and it happens to approximate to 3.14159.

Oh, OK. yeah, I had a pretty decent idea what it was, and I picked up on the date\3.14 thing, but do we care just to have a reason to eat pie? And why don't we celebrate (ex.) the acceleration of gravity on September 8th?

That's actually a good idea.

We could celebrate by dropping things off buildings. :)

This sounds like fun! Let's start with eggs. :)

I'm game...it looks like we got something going here- After eggs, water balloons!

I just threw my misbehaving printer out my third floor window. It made a really nice crashing sound and pieces went everywhere. It was the most satisfying thing I have done in a long time... :)

drop an atom bomb

Acceleration due to gravity is dependent on the units used. It only applies near earth. It is measured, while Pi is calculated. Essentially, gravity is physics while Pi is math. e day would be nice, except February doesn't have a 71st day.

Celebrating e could be on the 271st day of the year which would be Sept 28 on normal years and Sept 27 on leap years. And if the 314th day of the year was for Pi, it would be Dec 7 on normal years and Dec 6 on leap years.

I might have calculated these dates wrong.

wahoo Feb 71st!

wahoo Feb 71st!
"thats gonna be a l how much would there be in the other months ong year"

"all hail typood"

If you take a look around,you most definately will find something not straight in manner (i.e. curved). With 6 years under my belt studying physics, I can tell you that in order to do any physics with a curved object, you need the shape of an object in space, and pi is a number that makes it all work out. Without it, physics with curved object would be impossible.

Alright, that makes sense. I suppose since I'm interested in engineering, it sounds like it might come in handy. Thanks for the info!

Pi day, obviously. Oh, and this was posted at exactly 1:59 PM in EST on Pi day. Hooray Pi and Pie!

im glad to see that more people are voting for Easter! I dont consider Pi day as a real holiday.

Pi day is a holiday! ish. Praise be to Pi.

Go Easter, praise be to Jesus Christ!

Thats what I like to Here!

Praise be to Jesus AAAANNNNNDDDD Pi.

No one can serve two masters! (Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13)

This is true!

Giving praise to anyone/anything I think God would allow as long as highest praise is to Him.

You mean Easter isn't about the bunny? :-)

lol! I guess He doesn't mind if we celebrate w/some chocolate and stuff...as long as we remember why we're really celebrating!

He? The bunny? ^^

Riiiiight. Yeah, I'm sure the bunny doesn't mind!

"i think it would mind because we turn its cildren to choclate and eat them... or stuff them with jelly beans or money o r anything that will fit and scatter them for our enjoyment

horay more typood

"He" I think refers to Jesus/God.

"they are both holidays and i happen to only prefer easter because i get a nice big chocolate bunny but i also like pi day because i love celebrating things just for the heck of it"