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

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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 :)

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.

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.

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!!!

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

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.

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)

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

Now where am I?

sorry that should have been trouble

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

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.

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)!

I prefer to pass time, not kill it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

No one needed to invent it, merely celebrate it :)

e day sounds like ebay

What about

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

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