Prior to retirement, I worked in a national laboratory. PI day celebration lunches were a lot of fun! I don’t remember being able to purchase our Pizzas for $PI as stated above by Neil but it is heartening to think the pizza places these days have caught on! My favorite part of our PI days was when proud and brilliant physics would recite PI from memory to a mind boggling number of digits. This often involved telling bad PI jokes such as:
Q: Why should you never talk to pi?
A: Because he’ll just go on forever.
Q: What did pi say to its partner?
A: Stop being so irrational.
Q: Why did pi have its driver’s license revoked?
A: Because it didn’t know when to stop.
Q: What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter?
I have been using the small program "Super Pi" for a very long time to compare computers speeds (calculating at 32 millions digits). My current is at about 6 minutes. 😉
Ok, geeks, I need some weigh in on this. When I was a kid, i was taught that the value in the 8th place to the right of the decimal was a 7, as in 3.141592673. I ha e recited this at need for 50+ years. Now I see the value is a 5. Was I just taught wrong, or was it recalculated differently with the advent of computers?
Circles are round. Therefore, it is perfectly acceptable to "round" the value of Pi to a few less digits...! "Geek On"!! 😁👍
Prior to retirement, I worked in a national laboratory. PI day celebration lunches were a lot of fun! I don’t remember being able to purchase our Pizzas for $PI as stated above by Neil but it is heartening to think the pizza places these days have caught on! My favorite part of our PI days was when proud and brilliant physics would recite PI from memory to a mind boggling number of digits. This often involved telling bad PI jokes such as:
Q: Why should you never talk to pi?
A: Because he’ll just go on forever.
Q: What did pi say to its partner?
A: Stop being so irrational.
Q: Why did pi have its driver’s license revoked?
A: Because it didn’t know when to stop.
Q: What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter?
A: Pi in the sky.
Have fun on PI day!
Lots of places in our area offering pizza for $3.14
Uh...I'll take a slice of pecan.
I have been using the small program "Super Pi" for a very long time to compare computers speeds (calculating at 32 millions digits). My current is at about 6 minutes. 😉
Ok, geeks, I need some weigh in on this. When I was a kid, i was taught that the value in the 8th place to the right of the decimal was a 7, as in 3.141592673. I ha e recited this at need for 50+ years. Now I see the value is a 5. Was I just taught wrong, or was it recalculated differently with the advent of computers?