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Happy Pi Day 2006! :D
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:09 am
by Rockford4ever
I'm a bit late, since it was yesterday but anyway:
14 March was the National Pi Day, because it's written like 3/14.
Anyone knew about this before?

Specially for Pi Day: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706...

Take a look at
http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/ISC/ ... i10000.txt - having so much spare time is just sick

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:19 am
by Francesco
Hey, the PI number is actually *that* long?
What if we had to fix it in memory, and to repeat it in front of the blackboard during an interrogation!

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:46 am
by Rockford4ever
Francesco wrote:Hey, the PI number is actually *that* long?
What if we had to fix it in memory, and to repeat it in front of the blackboard during an interrogation!

You only get to learn 15 of them (I did'nt yet so I don't know, a friend of mine knows 20), but the real pi number is infinite - tough they
did found it until 400 billion numbers after the comma allready!

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:15 pm
by Francesco
I think that "3.14" will be enough for my math's needs - further, my memory agrees

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:43 pm
by Zomis
Rockford4ever wrote:You only get to learn 15 of them (I did'nt yet so I don't know, a friend of mine knows 20), but the real pi number is infinite - tough they
did found it until 400 billion numbers after the comma allready!

Don't ask me why, but I can remember 40 without problems

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:13 pm
by Francesco
Really? I admire your memory!
I usually have to ask people to repeat me their names - not only at the first meeting, even people that I meet once in a month or so - and if I see someone very rarely (once in a year) there is also the risk that I forget their face
But it doesn't happen with all people, and for other things I've got a really sharp memory... seems like a selective memory that applies a filter to the incoming data... I think I need a revision by a very skilled hardware technician, maybe also an upgrade

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:57 pm
by Holger
Oh, well, I have the same problems... :-o
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:29 am
by Zomis
Speaking of PI... there's actually a swedish domain (the longest swedish domain name) with a bunch of pi decimals...
http://www.1415926535897932384626433832 ... 494459.se/
Don't ask me why they chose that domain... the content doesn't seem to be related to pi at all..

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 11:06 am
by Francesco
Holger wrote:Oh, well, I have the same problems...

If this would mean having also the same skills, I double-sign for
@Zomis: hey, just seen your new avatar, nice beard!
Mine is so sparse that going from an hair to another takes half an hour of bicycle

It's not a joke

Something like "const == (PI * hair) / POW(inch, 2)"

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:23 pm
by Martijn
Francesco wrote:@Zomis: hey, just seen your new avatar, nice beard!
huh? a new avatar? it's exactly the same for me. and I don't see a beard!
well, probably he has changed it back or so...
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:50 pm
by Francesco
huh? a new avatar? it's exactly the same for me. and I don't see a beard!
well, probably he has changed it back or so...
ehehe, yes, he did!
Zomis Zomis... never "try-out" when quick-eyes are around - by the way, I could easily forget of it, you know, my poor memory

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:08 pm
by Zomis
Francesco wrote:huh? a new avatar? it's exactly the same for me. and I don't see a beard!
well, probably he has changed it back or so...
Zomis Zomis... never "try-out" when quick-eyes are around - by the way, I could easily forget of it, you know, my poor memory

Nope, I haven't changed it back... I suggest you press F5 to reload the page, I do have a beard

I updated the picture on my server, and the artsoft server links to that, so an updating of the cache could be useful for you

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:52 pm
by Francesco
Reading...

... ? ... F5

...

........... D'oh
I got tricked
By the way, I was logging on to post this idea:
The link above could be written something like this
"
http://www." + mid(PIstring, 2, 62) + ".se"
I don't know if this could be useful though...

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:58 pm
by Zomis
I just got a mail from the owner of the site I was trying to refer to, seems like most medieas got it wrong...
For some reason,
http://3.141592653589793238462643383279 ... 494459.se/ should be the correct adress... but now it seems like those URLs are pointing to the same site... but last time I checked the content didn't match at all what it is now...
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:20 pm
by Francesco
Yes, you're right Zomis, even when I checked it, it was different than now. It was a sort of personal homepage, with no mention about the PI number...