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Pi Day was March 14, 1592
Though some mathematicians still argue it was 1593 due to rounding.
:D
And then there are the Mathematicans from other parts of the world who use the format day/month/year (like the USA used to do, witness the seemingly archaic name of the "fourth of july" holiday)... they say there will never be a pi-day. :D
3.14. - Pi day
3.15. - Birthday (Also known as "Ides Of March - Caesar's stab-fest, 'Et Tu Brute' and the sort)
3.16. - Name day (Finnish calendar thingy, not sure about the title, though)
3 in a row. Do I win something? :D
Wait...
*spits out Biggles*
ACK! Sorry!
[B]3 in a row. Do I win something? :D [/B][/QUOTE]Your very own Botnian [url=http://www.ilkka.fi]newspaper[/url]!
luckly I'm allready there!
[B]You're 414 years late.
Pi Day was March 14, 1592
Though some mathematicians still argue it was 1593 due to rounding.
:D
And then there are the Mathematicans from other parts of the world who use the format day/month/year (like the USA used to do, witness the seemingly archaic name of the "fourth of july" holiday)... they say there will never be a pi-day. :D [/B][/QUOTE]
Not true! If we follow your original line of reasoning whereby decimal points created by gaps between parts of the date do not matter, then even with the day-month-year ordering scheme used in most of the world we find Pi days: 3rd Jan, 416 (3.1416), 3rd Jan, 4159 (3.14159), and so on.
Even with the big-endian, year-month-day ordering used in many East Asian countries and elsewhere, we still find many: 4 Jan, 3 (3.14), 1 April, 31 (3.141), 6 Jan, 314 (3.1416), 9 May, 3141 (3.14159), ...
It seems that no matter how you order your parts of the date, you can find Pi days to fit. :)
[B]As astonishing it sounds, there are even things written in non-western characters. Frightening, huh? [/B][/QUOTE]
Western? Bah! You must mean middle eastern. Western characters are [URL=http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/callig.shtml]runes[/URL]. :p
Pi = 3.14159...
13.37 = leet
42 = meaning of life
(and in Finnish, "pileet" means celebration or even bacchanals)
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Messiah [/i]
[B]Western? Bah! You must mean middle eastern. Western characters are [URL=http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/callig.shtml]runes[/URL]. [/B][/QUOTE]
I was about to use the word "arabic", but it didn't seem accurate enough.
[B]Hmm... haa handy! :)
3.15. - Birthday (Also known as "Ides Of March - Caesar's stab-fest, 'Et Tu Brute' and the sort)
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Heard something interesting on NPR this moring, that every time you breath in, you are, by mathmatical recogning, breathing in one molecule of the air contained in Ceasar's last breath...
Jake
[B]....9 May, 3141 (3.14159), ...
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But I'd rather not stick around until 3141 for PI day...
Jake
When you think about it, every time you drink a glass of water, you are by the same token drinking recycled dinosaur urine.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
[B]It seems that no matter how you order your parts of the date, you can find Pi days to fit. :) [/B][/QUOTE] But can you find an infinite number of pi days? :D
Actually, given that Pi has and infinite number of decimals all possible number combinations should exist in Pi, so all days are pi days somewhere in the sequence of digits!