Happy PI Day!

[Ice wolf]

I can't believe it...I forgot about Pi Day...

P. S. - My math teacher has a poster in her classroom that lists pi to 1000 digits.

[Veldrin81]

Gaze at these 1 million digits:

3.
14 No, sir.

[JKPolk]

Let's play good idea bad idea.

Good idea: talking about Pi day on a forum where a lot of geeky types stay. Encourages interesting conversation.

Bad idea: posting 1 million digits of pi in the same thread, just like how Veldrin81 did.

[Veldrin81]

Sorry then.

[Star_Rose662]

Heh. I got to eat apple pie in school today for Pi day. And My friends made pi signs and stuck them on my back.

My math teacher is freaky, but she said this:
Math is great, pi is fine!

3.14159!

-cough- retarded -cough-

Eh. Who knows.

hey i have a PI day contribution.

go to youtube and search 3.14 Apple Pi. hilarious :]

[-Barista-]

life of pi. Good book.

[lord_carbo]

Pi day was my birthday.

[StepmaniaGod6969]

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491

the first 500 digits

[iCeCuBEz v2]

Originally Posted by -Barista-

life of pi. Good book.

I agree, that was one the best books to be incorporated into the curriculum of high school english. Part 1 was a little slow and was really ****ing boring, but the action picked up rather quickly at part 2, iirc i just skipped most of part 1 altogether.

[Veldrin81]

Hahaha...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDu351QNoZE

[-Barista-]

Originally Posted by Jason padgett

Hi,

My name is Jason D. Padgett. I'm a physics/mathematics student in Washington state and I think I have found the solution to Pi.

I've always been taught that Pi sequence of numbers goes to infinity and never repeats. But that is at least partially incorrect.

They say that Pi goes to infinity because as you inscribe more and more polygons (or squares) within a circle you always have some space left over as you approach a circle (Pi being a limit as x approaches infinity). This is correct MATHEMATICALLY, but is incorrect when you look at the physical limits of measurement in the universe.

Pi ends when each side to a circle is one Planck length.

One equation that you can use to test this is, f(x)=xsin(pi/x)
In this equation as x approaches infinity f(x) approaches Pi. But again, Pi ends (physically) when each side to a circle equals one Planck length.

In integral form (I have to write it because the computer I'm on does not do equations, would be,

the integral from -1 to 1 of the square root of 1-x^2 with n=planck length.

Since there are no measurements (that are relative to us) that are smaller than a Planck length the the limit that we can divide the integrals into is the Planck length.

So Pi ends in this situation also. Mathematically it will go forever, but the physics of Pi is what the universe actually uses.

Thanks and have a great day. I love your website. Any comments or questions just send me an email and mention that is about Pi so I don't erase it.

Sincerely,

Jason D. Padgett
JASONQUANTUM1@YAHOO.COM

I met this guy today. According to him pi cannot go on forever. He tried to explain it to me but he was too excited to really say it in a way I could understand. He's been getting a lot of publicity about it.

[devonin]

Poe, E.
Near a Raven

Midnights so dreary, tired and weary.
Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore.
During my rather long nap - the weirdest tap!
An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber's antedoor.
"This", I whispered quietly, "I ignore".

Perfectly, the intellect remembers: the ghostly fires, a glittering ember.
Inflamed by lightning's outbursts, windows cast penumbras upon this floor.
Sorrowful, as one mistreated, unhappy thoughts I heeded:
That inimitable lesson in elegance - Lenore -
Is delighting, exciting...nevermore.

Ominously, curtains parted (my serenity outsmarted),
And fear overcame my being - the fear of "forevermore".
Fearful foreboding abided, selfish sentiment confided,
As I said, "Methinks mysterious traveler knocks afore.
A man is visiting, of age threescore."

Taking little time, briskly addressing something: "Sir," (robustly)
"Tell what source originates clamorous noise afore?
Disturbing sleep unkindly, is it you a-tapping, so slyly?
Why, devil incarnate!--" Here completely unveiled I my antedoor--
Just darkness, I ascertained - nothing more.

While surrounded by darkness then, I persevered to clearly comprehend.
I perceived the weirdest dream...of everlasting "nevermores".
Quite, quite, quick nocturnal doubts fled - such relief! - as my intellect said,
(Desiring, imagining still) that perchance the apparition was uttering a whispered "Lenore".
This only, as evermore.

Silently, I reinforced, remaining anxious, quite scared, afraid,
While intrusive tap did then come thrice - O, so stronger than sounded afore.
"Surely" (said silently) "it was the banging, clanging window lattice."
Glancing out, I quaked, upset by horrors hereinbefore,
Perceiving: a "nevermore".

Completely disturbed, I said, "Utter, please, what prevails ahead.
Repose, relief, cessation, or but more dreary 'nevermores'?"
The bird intruded thence - O, irritation ever since! -
Then sat on Pallas' pallid bust, watching me (I sat not, therefore),
And stated "nevermores".

Bemused by raven's dissonance, my soul exclaimed, "I seek intelligence;
Explain thy purpose, or soon cease intoning forlorn 'nevermores'!"
"Nevermores", winged corvus proclaimed - thusly was a raven named?
Actually maintain a surname, upon Pluvious seashore?
I heard an oppressive "nevermore".

My sentiments extremely pained, to perceive an utterance so plain,
Most interested, mystified, a meaning I hoped for.
"Surely," said the raven's watcher, "separate discourse is wiser.
Therefore, liberation I'll obtain, retreating heretofore -
Eliminating all the 'nevermores' ".

Still, the detestable raven just remained, unmoving, on sculptured bust.
Always saying "never" (by a red chamber's door).
A poor, tender heartache maven - a sorrowful bird - a raven!
O, I wished thoroughly, forthwith, that he'd fly heretofore.
Still sitting, he recited "nevermores".

The raven's dirge induced alarm - "nevermore" quite wearisome.
I meditated: "Might its utterances summarize of a calamity before?"
O, a sadness was manifest - a sorrowful cry of unrest;
"O," I thought sincerely, "it's a melancholy great - furthermore,
Removing doubt, this explains 'nevermores' ".

Seizing just that moment to sit - closely, carefully, advancing beside it,
Sinking down, intrigued, where velvet cushion lay afore.
A creature, midnight-black, watched there - it studied my soul, unawares.
Wherefore, explanations my insight entreated for.
Silently, I pondered the "nevermores".

"Disentangle, nefarious bird! Disengage - I am disturbed!"
Intently its eye burned, raising the cry within my core.
"That delectable Lenore - whose velvet pillow this was, heretofore,
Departed thence, unsettling my consciousness therefore.
She's returning - that maiden - aye, nevermore."

Since, to me, that thought was madness, I renounced continuing sadness.
Continuing on, I soundly, adamantly forswore:
"Wretch," (addressing blackbird only) "fly swiftly - emancipate me!"
"Respite, respite, detestable raven - and discharge me, I implore!"
A ghostly answer of: "nevermore".

" 'Tis a prophet? Wraith? Strange devil? Or the ultimate evil?"
"Answer, tempter-sent creature!", I inquired, like before.
"Forlorn, though firmly undaunted, with 'nevermores' quite indoctrinated,
Is everything depressing, generating great sorrow evermore?
I am subdued!", I then swore.

In answer, the raven turned - relentless distress it spurned.
"Comfort, surcease, quiet, silence!" - pleaded I for.
"Will my (abusive raven!) sorrows persist unabated?
Nevermore Lenore respondeth?", adamantly I encored.
The appeal was ignored.

"O, satanic inferno's denizen -- go!", I said boldly, standing then.
"Take henceforth loathsome "nevermores" - O, to an ugly Plutonian shore!
Let nary one expression, O bird, remain still here, replacing mirth.
Promptly leave and retreat!", I resolutely swore.
Blackbird's riposte: "nevermore".

So he sitteth, observing always, perching ominously on these doorways.
Squatting on the stony bust so untroubled, O therefore.
Suffering stark raven's conversings, so I am condemned, subserving,
To a nightmare cursed, containing miseries galore.
Thus henceforth, I'll rise (from a darkness, a grave) -- nevermore!

[rzr]

Originally Posted by StepmaniaGod6969

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491

the first 500 digits

How did you... why did you...?

[n3rdfu3l]

my pi day last year consisted of cupcakes or pie

i had a cupcake and as soon as i picked it up i dropped it (frosting down) and the teachers cleaned it up... i got another cupcake afterwards lol

[Flandre Scarlet]

Originally Posted by -Barista-

life of pi. Good book.

Originally Posted by iCeCuBEz v2

I agree, that was one the best books to be incorporated into the curriculum of high school english. Part 1 was a little slow and was really ****ing boring, but the action picked up rather quickly at part 2, iirc i just skipped most of part 1 altogether.

I loved that book. I thought part 1 was pretty slow, but part 2 was great, the suspense and action going on in that small area started to increase more and more.

[-Barista-]

Nobody cares about the other post I made though? That's probably one of the most important posts of this thread.

meh.

[devonin]

Don't feel too bad, nobody seems to have gotten my post either.

[TIMUS]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/sciencemath/6e7e/

[All_That_Chaz]

oh my god dev that is ridiculous.