[Homer] Mmmhh.. pie! [/Homer]

Unfortunately it's not π-day here in Germany , infact we cannot have a π-day at all, since we write the day before the month in dates....

Ah, and to celebrate, I think I'll have a French-Canadian meat pie, followed by a slice of apple pie. And I shall thereby disprove that pie are squared - sometimes, they are round...

cateye wrote:[Homer] Mmmhh.. pie! [/Homer]

Unfortunately it's not π-day here in Germany , infact we cannot have a π-day at all, since we write the day before the month in dates....

The 3rd of Sliptember, the Oleth of Arg was a poetic date coined by Spike Milligan, iirc. So, if we take Sliptember as the 14th month and the Oleth of Arg as the year 1592, we have a euro-date format that fits much better.

newolder wrote:

cateye wrote:[Homer] Mmmhh.. pie! [/Homer]

Unfortunately it's not π-day here in Germany , infact we cannot have a π-day at all, since we write the day before the month in dates....

The 3rd of Sliptember, the Oleth of Arg was a poetic date coined by Spike Milligan, iirc. So, if we take Sliptember as the 14th month and the Oleth of Arg as the year 1592, we have a euro-date format that fits much better.

Are the numbers, esp. the year just coincidence or did that guy actually make math joke!?

Let's write a Haiku for this

Diameter was so bummed again
That he decided to sex up Parameter
He went bottom, Parameter top

How's that?

lordshipmayhem wrote:Ah, and to celebrate, I think I'll have a French-Canadian meat pie, followed by a slice of apple pie. And I shall thereby disprove that pie are squared - sometimes, they are round...

If one makes too many pies, and they also have non-zero thickness, it is possible to serve 4/3 pie are cubed, and that should look something like a football, imho.

Did you guys know that according to Banach-Tarski it is possible to infinitely multiply pies? Only I haven't figured how to properly cut them...

You know that you're on a really nerdy geeky forum when there's a thread like this one. It must drive the fundies mad that they don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Agrippina wrote:You know that you're on a really nerdy geeky forum when there's a thread like this one. It must drive the fundies mad that they don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Here's a picture of me:

Some of my very favourite people are nerdy ,geeks.

How about a Limerick?

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'Cause three point one four is so near,
To pi, it's now frightfully clear,
  Since it looks like a date,
  Some take it as fate,
And point it out year after year.

cateye wrote:...
Are the numbers, esp. the year just coincidence or did that guy actually make math joke!?

I cannot find the reference on my shelves (the book may have been, “A Bedside Milligan” or something other – I don't recall clearly enough) but I doubt it was a deliberate math joke. Here's a sample from "A Dustbin of Milligan" (If you can't afford a dustbin, buy this.)

Milligan on stars:

The are holes in the sky,
where the rain gets in.
But they are ever so small,
that's why rain is thin.

Unique facts about pi website

The part about Sagan worries me. Did Sagan really say that!?

Morbus Cyclometricus is a good one, though

That was in Carl Sagan's book, but it was science fiction.

I'd think that anyone who would bother to set a π day would be a little more exacting than simply mimicking the North American standard of date notation.

A one over π slice of a year works out to be 26 March, 06:18:16.24.

A day first pi date will be the third of January in the year 4159. Mark it on your calendar.

Oh my god, the nerds have gone way over my senile head now...

Try writing a poem in Piish. The number of letters in each successive word correspond to the digits of Pi: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...

here's an example

"It's a clue.
A never repeating or ending chain, the total timeless catalogue,
elusive sequences, sum of the universe.
This riddle of nature begs:
Can the totality see no pattern, revealing order as reality's disguise?"

natselrox wrote:Try writing a poem in Piish. The number of letters in each successive word correspond to the digits of Pi: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...

here's an example

"It's a clue.
A never repeating or ending chain, the total timeless catalogue,
elusive sequences, sum of the universe.
This riddle of nature begs:
Can the totality see no pattern, revealing order as reality's disguise?"

Hey I actually understood that. That's so brilliant. I wish I was clever with maths.(and poetry)