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2012-08-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by trailing wife 2012-08-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 A bit irrational wasn't it?

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-08-15 00:47|| 2012-08-15 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Irrational? Let's get real. This was a transcendental moment.

Posted by SteveS 2012-08-15 01:01|| 2012-08-15 01:01|| Front Page Top

#3 1 pi is more useful, its also arctan 1

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-08-15 04:24|| 2012-08-15 04:24|| Front Page Top

#4 That should be quarter pi...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-08-15 04:24|| 2012-08-15 04:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Make mine coconut, with a cup of coffee please.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-15 06:56|| 2012-08-15 06:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Idiot.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-08-15 09:13|| 2012-08-15 09:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-08-15 10:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-08-15 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Stiffler!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2012-08-15 12:30|| 2012-08-15 12:30|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-08-15 18:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-08-15 20:05|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL, Paul. ;-p

Posted by Barbara 2012-08-15 20:26|| 2012-08-15 20:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-08-15 21:13|| Front Page Top

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