Pi Day!

[R. Richard]

Each 14 March is Pi Day (3.14) However, this is century Pi Day! (3.1415)

Go out and have yourself your favorite pie! (The calories don't count, this is Pi Day.)

 

[SandraMustard]

 

[JackLuis]

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

Hoooray Pi Day!

 

[Hypoxia]

Pie: Apple, bear, plum or berry
Any old thing to make us all merry
I think I'll go for rhubarb-strawberry

 

[legerdemer]

Just been to a pi day party where the host made a host (pun intended) of pi-inspired musical instruments. Great fun playing them!

 

[Serafina1210]

Be sure to celebrate pi second at 9:26:53!

 

[Over_Red]

Made mud pie for pi day.

It's delicious.

 

[glynndah]

I had pie today. Banana caramel.

 

[desertslave]

Just got home from a Pi Day party. There was pizza (pie), Taco Pie, a few quiches, and several fruit pies. My contribution was a fresh strawberry pie.

Traditional pastry-crust pie is my downfall. I'm a good baker with almost anything else, but good pie crust eludes me. I opt for cookie crumb crusts whenever I can get away with it.

 

[sr71plt]

Best I could do today was an apple turnover. Hope I haven't missed Turnover Day.

 

[TxRad]

PIE are round, Cake are square.

Cherry, Cherry Pie.

 

[Hypoxia]

It's over. Pie me to the moon.

 

[SamScribble]

At school - many, many years ago - I lost a point for stating pi to two too many points. Bloody pedants. Bloody rules.

 

[R. Richard]

At school - many, many years ago - I lost a point for stating pi to two too many points. Bloody pedants. Bloody rules.

Sigh. The message that they were trying to get across is that too much pi is bad for you. Learn it, live it.

 

[Hypoxia]

Followup: 3.14159 is further from actual pi than is 22/7. Thus, 22 July is also Pi Day. Really.

 

[49greg]

Pie: Apple, bear, plum or berry
Any old thing to make us all merry
I think I'll go for rhubarb-strawberry

A while back a friend gave us a gift of locally produced rhubarb wine. Then a few years later we took it with us when we were invited to a pi day evening meal. And lo-and-behold they had made rhubarb pie. They had no idea we would bring rhubarb wine and we had no idea they would make rhubarb pie. Happy coincidences are pleasant and joyful.

And as far as how many decimal places pi has, I read once that when calculating orbits for the Mercury Program, NASA only used pi to two decimal places.

 

[JackLuis]

And as far as how many decimal places pi has, I read once that when calculating orbits for the Mercury Program, NASA only used pi to two decimal places.

It's hard to get better than three places on a slide rule. Remember 1960's technology?

 

[Handley_Page]

Followup: 3.14159 is further from actual pi than is 22/7. Thus, 22 July is also Pi Day. Really.

Just what IS the 'right' fraction for Pi ?

 

[Weird Harold]

Just what IS the 'right' fraction for Pi ?

Pi is a non-repeating decimal, so there is no exact "right" number, just ever more accurate approximations -- out to a couple thousand decimal places IIRC.

That degree of precision is seldom significant so two, four or six decimal places are the usual options for precision.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Pi is a non-repeating decimal, so there is no exact "right" number, just ever more accurate approximations -- out to a couple thousand decimal places IIRC.

That degree of precision is seldom significant so two, four or six decimal places are the usual options for precision.

It's been calculated to about 13 trillion places now; there are formulae that will calculate it as close as you like, if you have the time to do it and the memory to store the results. Anything past about ten decimal places is more for bragging rights or benchmarking purposes than any practical use.

Here's an "interesting" pi-related kickstarter. Currently the guy has $314 pledged out of the $100k he's trying to raise to calculate the last digit of pi (sic):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elite-pcs/the-pi-z0ne

 

[49greg]

We had some sort of pre-made ice cream pie for pi day, both of us too lazy to bake, so I drove down the local grocery store and that was what I picked, mostly because it didn't need baking or re-heating, just something sharp to cut through the frozen layers of vanilla, strawberry and chocolate ice cream. The whipped topping was easy.