OT: Happy Pi Day

[RU'70]

To all the mathematicians out there: Happy Pi Day 3.14.15

 

[onesimus]

This post was edited on 3/14 5:40 AM by onesimus

 

[onesimus]

Wanted to post a picture. No idea why it doesn't work.

 

[Abro1975]

And Happy Birthday to Albert Einstein

 

[DJ Spanky]

 

[ClassOf02]

 

[ScarletEd]

Originally posted by DJ Spanky:

Thanks for the explanation. I was just going to ask the board what does pi mean.

 

[runrayrun]

Have a happy day, Pi, even though I'll never get to see all of your digits.

 

[GeorgeStreet]

Pi is of course the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. But with the concept of the curvature of space introduced by Prof Einstein, that is not true for very large circles.

 

[DJ Spanky]

Originally posted by GeorgeStreet:
Pi is of course the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. But with the concept of the curvature of space introduced by Prof Einstein, that is not true for very large circles.

Sounds like circular logic to me.

 

[Knight Shift]

Celebrated Pi day at the Hill Center for Mathematics today, as my son's team was in the finals for the Math Counts competition. Some kid new Pi out to 50 digits.

 

[RU848789]

Originally posted by Knight Shift:
Celebrated Pi day at the Hill Center for Mathematics today, as my son's team was in the finals for the Math Counts competition. Some kid new Pi out to 50 digits.

Having been around geeky science/math types my whole life, I always chuckled at folks who thought that knowing pi to X digits gave them some math cred, when all that is is memorization, having nothing to do with math.

 

[GeorgeStreet]

Thank you, RU848....whatever.

 

[Knight Shift]

Originally posted by RU848789:

Originally posted by Knight Shift:
Celebrated Pi day at the Hill Center for Mathematics today, as my son's team was in the finals for the Math Counts competition. Some kid new Pi out to 50 digits.

Having been around geeky science/math types my whole life, I always chuckled at folks who thought that knowing pi to X digits gave them some math cred, when all that is is memorization, having nothing to do with math.

Yeah, but some of these 7th and 8th graders were crushing questions in the countdown round, which was jeopardy style. Truly impressive.

Sitting in Hill 114 brought back fond memories of the 4 semesters of calculus and differential equations lectures I endured in that room (and maybe 116). I got some good sleep in that room, and still pulled out decent grades.

 

[e5fdny]

Originally posted by RU848789:

Originally posted by Knight Shift:
Celebrated Pi day at the Hill Center for Mathematics today, as my son's team was in the finals for the Math Counts competition. Some kid new Pi out to 50 digits.

Having been around geeky science/math types my whole life, I always chuckled at folks who thought that knowing pi to X digits gave them some math cred, when all that is is memorization, having nothing to do with math.