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Author Topic: It's International "pi" day!!! Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 03-14-2009 05:38 PM                     DID YOU KNOW IT WAS INTERNATIONAL "Pi" DAY? I almost missed it! It was today at precicesly 1:59:26pm. Why;you ask? If you add todays date, March 14, to that time, it becomes 314145926 or "Pi". I'm going out to a bakery & buying a slice to celebrate!  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 03-14-2009 06:23 PM                     While you're there grab me an eclair will you please Jim? (If I knew what the heck you were talking about I'd probably be more appreciative.)  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-14-2009 07:10 PM                     quote: Jim Cassedy 314145926 I'll add the decimal making it ... 3.14145926 Here's "Pi in your eye" -Monte  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-14-2009 08:31 PM                     1,000,000 pieces of PI "The first 1000000 decimal places contain: 99959 0s, 99758 1s, 100026 2s, 100229 3s, 100230 4s, 100359 5s, 99548 6s, 99800 7s, 99985 8s and 100106 9s. There's one '3' before the decimal point..."  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-14-2009 09:27 PM                     You're never gonna fit any of those square pegs in that round hole and fill it completely....lots of numbers there. (I bet that bankers and investors love seeing numbers jumble around like that though.... ) -Monte  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-14-2009 09:39 PM                        And it's part of the Cal Tech cheer: "Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, three point one four one five nine!"  |  IP: Logged

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