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Math Nerds Rejoice!

The ultimate,perfect Pi day

Today at 9:26 and 53 seconds will be the ultimate Pi day:3 14 15 92653. I can't believe the media didn't cover it. To me ,Pi day is much more interesting than Washington politics. My two brothers and I celebrated with a pecan pie (the official pie of Texas). We measured the diameter of the pie and multiplied by 3.141592653. We then divided this by 3 to precisely divide the pie. Unfortunately, we didn't get to do it at 9:26, we were a little bit late. If you missed today's celebration, you can wait a hundred years for the next one.

As one of my Industrial Technology professors in college used to say: Precision is when you measure with a micrometers, mark with chalk, and cut it with a chainsaw.
 
MWIECK said:
Today at 9:26 and 53 seconds will be the ultimate Pi day:3 14 15 92653. I can't believe the media didn't cover it. To me ,Pi day is much more interesting than Washington politics. My two brothers and I celebrated with a pecan pie (the official pie of Texas). We measured the diameter of the pie and multiplied by 3.141592653. We then divided this by 3 to precisely divide the pie. Unfortunately, we didn't get to do it at 9:26, we were a little bit late. If you missed today's celebration, you can wait a hundred years for the next one.

As one of my Industrial Technology professors in college used to say: Precision is when you measure with a micrometers, mark with chalk, and cut it with a chainsaw.
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Not to rain on all math nerd's parade, but an enormous amount of 'Kentucky Windage' had to be taken to rationalize today's significance.

How convenient that when dissecting 3.141592653, that we leave off the first two digits of the calendar year. We simply ignore things like 1715 or 1815 or 2015 and just make use of the '15' in order to make this work.

That kind of "moldable Playdough logic" doesn't sit well in purist math circles.

So, while "Pi Day" can certainly be celebrated each and every year our race still adheres to the Julian Calendar, the ultra-cool sequence of 3.141592653 happened only once in human history - in the year 15 A.D. :deal
 
greenwald said:
Not to rain on all math nerd's parade, but an enormous amount of 'Kentucky Windage' had to be taken to rationalize today's significance.

How convenient that when dissecting 3.141592653, that we leave off the first two digits of the calendar year. We simply ignore things like 1715 or 1815 or 2015 and just make use of the '15' in order to make this work.

That kind of "moldable Playdough logic" doesn't sit well in purist math circles.

So, while "Pi Day" can certainly be celebrated each and every year our race still adheres to the Julian Calendar, the ultra-cool sequence of 3.141592653 happened only once in human history - in the year 15 A.D. :deal
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Party Pooper.
 
greenwald said:
Not to rain on all math nerd's parade, but an enormous amount of 'Kentucky Windage' had to be taken to rationalize today's significance.

How convenient that when dissecting 3.141592653, that we leave off the first two digits of the calendar year. We simply ignore things like 1715 or 1815 or 2015 and just make use of the '15' in order to make this work.

That kind of "moldable Playdough logic" doesn't sit well in purist math circles.

So, while "Pi Day" can certainly be celebrated each and every year our race still adheres to the Julian Calendar, the ultra-cool sequence of 3.141592653 happened only once in human history - in the year 15 A.D. :deal
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By your own logic, it happened twice, in 15AD and 15BC.
 
rangerreece said:
We were on the Jewish calander then... Not the same, wouldn't have worked. History nerds rejoice!
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Excuse me, but I can assure you, my northern European ancestors, were possibly following a Roman or Germanic tribe calendar. The Jewish population in the time of 0 AD extended along the eastern edge of the Mediterranean from Alexandria to the Bosphorus.
 
rangerreece said:
We were on the Jewish calander then... Not the same, wouldn't have worked. History nerds rejoice!
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Julius Caesar introduced his calendar in 45 B.C., and it was followed throughout the Roman world, much of Europe and even European settlements in the Americas.

Though later superceded by the Gregorian Calendar, that only added .002% days to the calculations.

As 36654 graciously corrected me, 3.141592653 occurred but twice in human history: 15 B.C. and 15 A.D.

However, a generic Pi Day still occurs every year in March, so go have a slice. :dance
 
greenwald said:
Julius Caesar introduced his calendar in 45 B.C., and it was followed throughout the Roman world, much of Europe and even European settlements in the Americas.

Though later superceded by the Gregorian Calendar, that only added .002% days to the calculations.

As 36654 graciously corrected me, 3.141592653 occurred but twice in human history: 15 B.C. and 15 A.D.

However, a generic Pi Day still occurs every year in March, so go have a slice. :dance
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However, Caesar never picked a year 0. At best, they referenced years since the founding of Rome.


But......as the Engineers say....3.14 is close enough. Eat the Pie and be happy.
 
ka5ysy said:
My head hurts. Anybody got some tin foil ? :hungover
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Sure- do some measuring. You will need a tape measure an working knowledge of the PI formula. Decide on the gauge of the foil taking into consideration head shape. We can fix you up. :wave
OM
 
Omega Man said:
Sure- do some measuring. You will need a tape measure an working knowledge of the PI formula. Decide on the gauge of the foil taking into consideration head shape. We can fix you up. :wave
OM
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Arai or Shoei head shape?
 
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