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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:27 amI know we're much better than this, so I waited until today. Happy Belated Pi Day everyone. I celebrated by watching Einstein and Hawking shows on the Science network until I fell asleep.
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:27 amRe: 314
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:47 amIts OK, it is an irrational, infinitely long number, so we have as much time as we need to celebrate it.
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:52 amI caught the end of an NPR story this morning about a guy that has resolved it to several trillion places. Apparently, it would take over 300 years for him to read it to us...
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:29 pm170TB of data!
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:01 pmShe's gonna have to show her work to get credit ...
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:43 pmSigma_Orionis wrote:And then there's this gal...
Wonder if she found an intelligent signal in it? (I surely can't be the only one who actually read Contact the book.)
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:44 pmQue eerie music.....
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:01 pmI'm absolutely stunned (and saddened) that nobody celebrated this wonderful day by having a piece of pie! even my sister, the self-described hater of math, did.
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:54 pmNext year I plan to coordinate a Pi baking contest at work!
In general I'm more of a cake fan, then pie.
In general I'm more of a cake fan, then pie.
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:56 pmThere's pie right now on the conference table outside my cube.code monkey wrote:I'm absolutely stunned (and saddened) that nobody celebrated this wonderful day by having a piece of pie! even my sister, the self-described hater of math, did.
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:57 pmAround here, we're mostly fans of free food.pumpkinpi wrote:Next year I plan to coordinate a Pi baking contest at work!
In general I'm more of a cake fan, then pie.
Apparently, we've been celebrating Girl Scout day for the last 3 weeks.
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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 10:03 pmThumper wrote:Around here, we're mostly fans of free food.pumpkinpi wrote:Next year I plan to coordinate a Pi baking contest at work!
In general I'm more of a cake fan, then pie.
Apparently, we've been celebrating Girl Scout day for the last 3 weeks.
So...the crack dealer showed up.
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:25 amYup.
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 1:22 pmJust imagine having cases of girl scout cookies in your basement......those darn Lemonades have a very flimsy package, and they keep ripping open, so I have to buy them!!!
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 1:45 pmThe Horror.
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:47 pmpumpkinpi wrote:Just imagine having cases of girl scout cookies in your basement......those darn Lemonades have a very flimsy package, and they keep ripping open, so I have to buy them!!!
OMFG I GET TO EAT GIRL SCOUT COOKIES AGAIN WHEN I MOVE BACK TO THE USA
Sorry ignore me, just had a realization!
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 6:08 pmRommie wrote:Wonder if she found an intelligent signal in it? (I surely can't be the only one who actually read Contact the book.)
I've read it. I was always skeptical--just imagine a superior intellect designing the universe (and number system) so that 4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + 4/9 ... has a infinite expansion that *eventually* encodes a digital circle
And might be normal to boot.
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 6:46 pmRommie wrote:pumpkinpi wrote:Just imagine having cases of girl scout cookies in your basement......those darn Lemonades have a very flimsy package, and they keep ripping open, so I have to buy them!!!
OMFG I GET TO EAT GIRL SCOUT COOKIES AGAIN WHEN I MOVE BACK TO THE USA
Sorry ignore me, just had a realization!
If you want some now, I'll send you some!
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:25 pmpumpkinpi wrote:Just imagine having cases of girl scout cookies in your basement......those darn Lemonades have a very flimsy package, and they keep ripping open, so I have to buy them!!!
Funny, is it only the Lemonades?
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:00 amgrapes wrote:Rommie wrote:Wonder if she found an intelligent signal in it? (I surely can't be the only one who actually read Contact the book.)
I've read it. I was always skeptical--just imagine a superior intellect designing the universe (and number system) so that 4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + 4/9 ... has a infinite expansion that *eventually* encodes a digital circle
And might be normal to boot.
Actually,one could see Pi calculated to enough number of places as an implementation f the Infinite Monkey Theorem
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:19 amThere are cases around here. We could next day air you some if it was an emergency...Rommie wrote:pumpkinpi wrote:Just imagine having cases of girl scout cookies in your basement......those darn Lemonades have a very flimsy package, and they keep ripping open, so I have to buy them!!!
OMFG I GET TO EAT GIRL SCOUT COOKIES AGAIN WHEN I MOVE BACK TO THE USA
Sorry ignore me, just had a realization!
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 5:12 pmSigma_Orionis wrote:grapes wrote:Rommie wrote:Wonder if she found an intelligent signal in it? (I surely can't be the only one who actually read Contact the book.)
I've read it. I was always skeptical--just imagine a superior intellect designing the universe (and number system) so that 4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + 4/9 ... has a infinite expansion that *eventually* encodes a digital circle
And might be normal to boot.
Actually,one could see Pi calculated to enough number of places as an implementation f the Infinite Monkey Theorem
They address that in the book by saying it occurs high enough up in the chain to be statistically anomalous.
IRC, Carl Sagan included that pi thing as an example of what would he accept as proof of a deity. I guess it's a bit silly because, well, insert comment about religion here.
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:13 pmI'm 99.9% certain that god exists, because ... pie
I mean, pi
I mean, pi
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Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:50 pmgrapes wrote:I'm 99.9% certain that god exists, because ... pie
I mean, pi
Well, eating pecan pie is sort of like being in heaven.
