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Divernan

(15,480 posts)
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 07:41 AM Mar 2015

What will you be doing on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53?

If you’re a math enthusiast, maybe you’ll be celebrating the once-a-century day when the calendar and the clock align to represent the first 10 digits of pi (3.141592653).

As you remember from middle school geometry, pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and is always the same, no matter what circle you use to compute it. It is an irrational number that never repeats, with an infinite number of decimal places — though in 2013 a researcher took it to eight quadrillion places right of the decimal.

This year, the “Pi Day of the Century” will be marked in all kinds of creative ways. At the San Francisco Exploratorium, where the official celebration first began, you can participate in a pi procession and pizza pie dough tossing.

If you’re an applicant to the M.I.T. class of 2019, you’ll find out at exactly 9:26 whether or not you were admitted.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/throwback-thursday-the-pi-day-of-the-century/?_r=0

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What will you be doing on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53? (Original Post) Divernan Mar 2015 OP
Eating Pi... Cooley Hurd Mar 2015 #1
Sleeping, I hope. Shrike47 Mar 2015 #2
Reading all the post about Pi strawberries Mar 2015 #3
Eating Pie Gothmog Mar 2015 #4
Toasting pi pinboy3niner Mar 2015 #5
selling pie justabob Mar 2015 #6
Having pie with 2 friends and an acquaintance marym625 Mar 2015 #7
All together now... gregcrawford Mar 2015 #8
Good one! I'll be singing that tune around 9:30 mountain grammy Mar 2015 #27
Pi turbinetree Mar 2015 #9
My Pi hole will be shut Martin Eden Mar 2015 #10
Dreaming of pie in the sky... LeftishBrit Mar 2015 #11
"Pi are round, cake are square" TheCowsCameHome Mar 2015 #12
Having quiche ybbor Mar 2015 #13
Making pi. n/t sarge43 Mar 2015 #14
Probably reading the toons at DU malthaussen Mar 2015 #15
Celebrating Pi Day of course! n/t ewagner Mar 2015 #16
Getting excited as it approaches! etherealtruth Mar 2015 #17
Wondering why some ppl have so much time on their hands tavernier Mar 2015 #18
thinking about Harold Finch irisblue Mar 2015 #19
That was awesome! ybbor Mar 2015 #20
Posting this: MrScorpio Mar 2015 #21
called my science teacher daughter and spent that second with her! rurallib Mar 2015 #22
Eating PI madokie Mar 2015 #23
Wondering why so many people skepticscott Mar 2015 #24
Possible answer: it is good natured fun! etherealtruth Mar 2015 #30
Just a bit of fun LeftishBrit Mar 2015 #40
I'm guessing you have no plans for 6:02 on October 23, either. (n/t) Jim Lane Mar 2015 #41
Looking at the clock! Owl Mar 2015 #25
Pizza Pi for dinner tonight :) nt TBF Mar 2015 #26
Preparing for St. Patrick's Day, H2O Man Mar 2015 #28
Apparently, sleeping. Jamastiene Mar 2015 #29
I guess doing what I am now. Gman Mar 2015 #31
So excited!! Owl Mar 2015 #32
Happy Pi Day. I make pies. ancianita Mar 2015 #33
"Sine, Cosine, Cosine, Sine...3.14159!" SoapBox Mar 2015 #34
Best reply on the thread! What a great cheer! Divernan Mar 2015 #42
Cuddling with my sweetie, drinking coffee & waiting for reruns of Car Talk to come on. catbyte Mar 2015 #35
Running around in circles dickthegrouch Mar 2015 #36
I was either reading DU or folding laundry. MineralMan Mar 2015 #37
Eating BB40E64D nt One_Life_To_Give Mar 2015 #38
I was in the shower Spirochete Mar 2015 #39

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
8. All together now...
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 08:23 AM
Mar 2015

... "When the moon hits your eye like the first ten digits of Pi, that's amore!"

With apologies to Dean Martin ;-}

tavernier

(12,388 posts)
18. Wondering why some ppl have so much time on their hands
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 09:22 AM
Mar 2015

when I can barely finish my chores by bedtime!

8 quadrillion places to the right of the decimal. I bet that man is not married.

 

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
24. Wondering why so many people
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 09:45 AM
Mar 2015

are wasting so much time and effort obsessing over this. Yeah, it's cute…the date and time matches the digits of pi. So?

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
34. "Sine, Cosine, Cosine, Sine...3.14159!"
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 10:47 AM
Mar 2015

Thinking of Dr. Dick Solomon from 3rd Rock from the Sun, leading a cheer at Pendleton's Homecoming game (episode, Fourth and Dick).

catbyte

(34,382 posts)
35. Cuddling with my sweetie, drinking coffee & waiting for reruns of Car Talk to come on.
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 10:55 AM
Mar 2015

Life is good.

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