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| Happy American Pi Day! |
| 2012-08-15 |
| [AFP] The US population reached a number dear to mathematicians on Tuesday: 314,159,265 or pi times 100 million. "So go out and celebrate this American pi," quipped the US Census Bureau's chief demographer, Howard Hogan, in a statement marking the milestone. "This is a once in many generations event," Hogan added in the release that reminded readers that "pi is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter." The landmark was reached shortly after 1829 GMT. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #13 We can celebrate again when the national debt is $314,159,265 per person, during President Obama's second term. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2012-08-15 21:13 |
| #12 LOL, Paul. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-08-15 20:26 |
| #11 I prefer pi/4 as in pi/4 d^2. Good to find the area of a circle given the diameter. Pi r squared? No, pi are round, cornbread are squared. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2012-08-15 20:05 |
| #10 Thought pi day was on 3-14? Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than 16 hours to recite the number to 100,000 decimal places, breaking his personal best of 83,431 digits set in 1995. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-08-15 18:20 |
| #9 Stiffler! |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2012-08-15 12:30 |
| #8 "The landmark was reached shortly after 1829 GMT." Revised to 1827 GMT after discovering another crossing of the Rio Grande. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2012-08-15 11:43 |
| #7 Make mine coconut, with a cup of coffee please. Come now, Besoeker, everyone knows the American Pi is apple. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-08-15 10:12 |
| #6 Idiot. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-08-15 09:13 |
| #5 Make mine coconut, with a cup of coffee please. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-08-15 06:56 |
| #4 That should be quarter pi... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-08-15 04:24 |
| #3 1 pi is more useful, its also arctan 1 |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-08-15 04:24 |
| #2 Irrational? Let's get real. This was a transcendental moment. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-08-15 01:01 |
| #1 A bit irrational wasn't it? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-08-15 00:47 |