Happy Pi Day!

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<p>This day should also remind us of what happens when goverments attempt to make public policy (like [teaching</a> Intelligent Design in biology](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District]teaching”>Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Wikipedia)) that subverts science.</p>

<p>From [Indiana</a> Pi](<a href=“Agricultural Economics”>Agricultural Economics):</p>

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Sure - go ask one of my Ds for it but you better hurry before it gets consumed. I expect you have no more that 3.14159265 days to do so.</p>

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Ha - I only ever remember it up to the 3.14159265 number which was more than adequate for my engineering courses - especially when I used a slide rule before scientific calculators came out. I’m not sure why I still remember even that much since I have more contact with pie than pi nowadays.</p>

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<p>Would that be June 2nd? Or June 2nd “many” years from now? Or do I have the wrong number?</p>

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<p>binx, that’d be celebrating at 6:02 am in the chemistry classroom on October 23rd! :)</p>

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<p>Today in school we watched the movie “Proof” with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal (sp?)! We usually have pie for dessert, but, alas, not this year. Happy Pi!</p>

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<p>We’ve been celebrating pi MONTH here in Alabama.</p>

<p>edit: Texas/Indiana/Kansas/whatever state the urban legend is</p>

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<p>friend’s Pi Day project a few years ago</p>

<p>YouTube - Pi Day Rap </p>

<p>priceless</p>

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<p>Do they celebrate Avogadro’s day with avocados? I like the October 23rd part…</p>

<p>Maybe they could do whack-a-mole…</p>

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<p>I have a child whose birthday is Pi Day. Yes, we do have pie instead of cake!</p>

<p>Also Einstein’s birthday, btw.</p>

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<p>ah, good to know. S will be impressed.</p>

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<p>Happy belated Pi Day to you all. When my son was 11, his 6th grade math class celebrated the March 14th Pi Day by having a series of Pi-related events. Although he is a pretty shy kid, my son signed up for a contest where kids had to memorize as many digits of Pi as they could and then stand in front of an assembly and recite them. The day before he was to compete, he stood in front of my husband and I and got up to 416 digits without an error. On Pi-day he “stumbled” at 334 digits but still won the contest. </p>

<p>My son is now a freshman chemical engineering major in college and is home for Spring Break. I reminded him that Friday was Pi-day and he turned and rattled off the first fifty-odd digits of Pi to me. He still remembers that much! He says he still gets mad that he only got to 334 digits during his 6th grade competition. “I got nervous, the teacher was looking right at me!” I asked him how on earth one memorizes something that long and he just shrugged and said that in the week leading up to the contest, he would incrementally memorize another 50 digits each day on top of the digits he memorized the day before. He said the digits formed a pattern in his memory. Each group of digits would remind him of the group that came next. He makes it sound easy but I can’t fathom doing this. (By the way, his school record only lasted until the next year’s Pi-day contest when another kid managed to beat him.So there you go.)</p>

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<p>416!!!
When one of my sons was in 7th grade he and another kid had an informal competition to learn as many digits of pi as they could. I think one got to 75 and the other to 100. And I thought THAT was a waste of memory!</p>