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likethebeerHappy Pi day! And not just any Pi day! "The sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, p, was first used for the familiar value 3.1415… in the publication, 'Synopsis Palmariorium Mathesios', authored by William Jones in 1706. 2006 will be the 300th Anniversary of the introduction of the mathematical symbol p."
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362440656643086021394946395224737190702179860943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132000568127145263560827785771342....
(I have no idea why it looks the way it does on the browser).
Pi.
1.The Greek letter P or p, corresponding to the roman p.
2.A number, represented by said letter, expressing the ratio of the circumference of a perfect circle to its diameter. The value of pi has been calculated to many millions of decimal places, to no readily apparent purpose: no perfect circles or spheres exist in nature, since matter is composed of atoms and therefore lumpy, not smooth. Nature herself sometimes takes to rounding off the more extreme decimals of numbers when they get sufficiently small, as Prof. Heisenberg has pointed out. However, the continued extension of pi provides a harmless exercise of computer power which would otherwise be misused playing Quake or surfing pointless web sites.
And, hey, thanks to Garrison Keillor, I now know that it's Einstein's birthday. Sadly, Google is not taking advantage of either of these facts.
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362440656643086021394946395224737190702179860943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132000568127145263560827785771342....
(I have no idea why it looks the way it does on the browser).
Pi.
1.The Greek letter P or p, corresponding to the roman p.
2.A number, represented by said letter, expressing the ratio of the circumference of a perfect circle to its diameter. The value of pi has been calculated to many millions of decimal places, to no readily apparent purpose: no perfect circles or spheres exist in nature, since matter is composed of atoms and therefore lumpy, not smooth. Nature herself sometimes takes to rounding off the more extreme decimals of numbers when they get sufficiently small, as Prof. Heisenberg has pointed out. However, the continued extension of pi provides a harmless exercise of computer power which would otherwise be misused playing Quake or surfing pointless web sites.
And, hey, thanks to Garrison Keillor, I now know that it's Einstein's birthday. Sadly, Google is not taking advantage of either of these facts.
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Date: 2006-03-15 02:03 am (UTC)I only realized about 2 years ago that if my sister lives until her 80th birthday, it will be on 1/23/45. This is even better!
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Date: 2006-03-15 02:03 am (UTC)Thanks for letting me know the whole phenomenon in the first place (although I didn't do anything special at 1:59 today--either am or pm).
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