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Re: Pi Party coming up
From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2010 Mar 2, 21:44 -0600
From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2010 Mar 2, 21:44 -0600
Nerdy too is the Mnemonic: "May I have a large container of coffee". This has given me pi to seven decimal places since my teens. Ken On Mar 2, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Paul Saffo wrote: > Slightly off-topic, but Pi Day is coming up -- and the countdown to > 2015 (the mother of all pi days!) continues. Of course this is a > bit artificial -- one has to use 2-digit year format and use > decimal fractional seconds to cconfect the auspicious moment. > Which presents a nice challenge that the members of this list are > more than up to .... Depending on the notation system one uses, > how many other pi-friendly moments can one confect? > > -p > >> Type: Party - Holiday Party >> Date: Saturday, March 14, 2015 >> Time: 9:25am - 9:30pm >> Location: Across the world! > >> Description >> Yes, the time is upon us. Everyone knows pi day is March 14th, but >> any true nerd realizes pi is not 3.14, but rather an irrational >> constant which, as far as we know, repeats infinitely in random >> sequence. Starting at 9:26:53 (.589... sec) AM, the longest >> extended Pi Day of our lives come into action. The date, at the AM >> and PM hours, will be " 3/14/15 at 9:26:53.589. These two rare >> moments will only happen once in our lifetime! >> >> If you're a nerd, you will invite ANY other nerd you know :D >> > >
