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Happy Pi Day!
Posted by Michael on 14 March 2005, 03:00 GMT
Happy Pi Day! That's right, the most sacred nerd holiday has returned: March 14th, affectionally known as Pi Day to millions of people around the world. Last year we didn't have enough material for a dedicated Pi Day article, but I've managed to collect a few things this time. First, some of you (sadly) may not have yet voraciously scoured the internet for all things pi, and perhaps have not yet seen the awesome Pi-Search Page. You can find the position of your telephone number, social security number, or other fun numeric sequence inside the first 100 million digits of pi.
On the more creative fronts, a few years ago I created a song based upon pi, titled "Lost in Pi Land." Each note (A-G#) corresponds to a particular digit 0-9. Those of you with perfect pitch can transcribe the notes and find out how many decimal places of pi are in the piece. I might just be extremely biased when I say this, but this would make excellent background music for all of your Pi Day parties.
Lastly, we will be having informal Coordinated Pi Shouts in #tcpa on EFNet at 1:59:26 PM in each time zone. If you are not sure of how to get on IRC, please read our IRC page. Remember folks, that's coordinated pi shouting every hour on the :59:26. Once again, have a happy Pi Day and we'll shout "Pi!" together on IRC every hour.
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
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Joey Gannon 
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For those of you who haven't, please see the movie "Pi". I'm sure that a lot of the nerds in this community (myself included) will find themselves connecting with the themes. Click the link below my name to read the IMDB page about the movie.
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14 March 2005, 03:10 GMT
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Re: Happy Pi Day!
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Coolv
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The string 13371337 was found at position 50222224 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted.
Transcript!
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14 March 2005, 04:30 GMT
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no_one_2000_
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Spring break? We never got a Spring Break. All we got was one day off school, and I used the whole day to work on a Physics project. So it was hardly a "break."
Off-topic, but this week, I also had the AIME (got a 6/15, meh), my USAMTS Round 4 submission, and the SAT. Add Pi Day, a huge Physics project, and a school math competition, and that makes up my extremely busy week. Spring break does not exist. :(
Btw, I think the first string of numbers everybody typed in was "1337."
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14 March 2005, 23:17 GMT
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