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Offline larryk

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Pie anyone?
« on: March 14, 2012, 03:39:32 PM »
No, not that kinda pie!
Happy Pi day to everyone out there. Just wonderin if I was the only one lucky enough to print the Pi design on any shirts/ Gotta love them goofy customers.


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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2012, 04:48:12 PM »
I'm guessing that my clients are more precise and are waiting four more years for 3.14.16 (rounded off from3.14159)  ;D
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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2012, 06:05:40 PM »
We just printed the PI sign on some shirts for the Math Club at the Junior High School
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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2012, 12:24:41 PM »
Frog... did you miss the obvious?
3.1415
Just THREE more years, I better get started on that artwork............

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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2012, 12:48:34 PM »
No Larry, .159 can never be rounded off to .15. In fact, I have always used 3.1416 as pi to a reasonable, easily remembered number of places.
Local adult contemp station here played pie songs for their 10 at 10 theme. When else would you hear "American Pie" and "That's  Amore" in the same set?
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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2012, 12:53:29 PM »
frog is correct, but since the world is ending this year, you won't see 3-14-2016.  so it doesn't matter.

disclaimer: i don't really think the world is ending.

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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2012, 12:53:45 PM »
I'm guessing that my clients are more precise and are waiting four more years for 3.14.16 (rounded off from3.14159)  ;D

Kind of like a funny thing I saw on the internets... remember 11-11-11 when everyone was getting married and such on that "special day?"

The funny meme said "The special day was 11-11-1111. You missed it by 900 years."
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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2012, 12:58:14 PM »
frog is correct, but since the world is ending this year, you won't see 3-14-2016.  so it doesn't matter.

disclaimer: i don't really think the world is ending.

My wife just told me that she saw something that said that since the Mayan calender didn't include "leap days", that their date of doom has actually come and gone already. You can breathe easier.
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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2012, 01:36:23 PM »
I saw that same thing... but that is kind of dumb.

The people that calculated where the Mayan calendar lines up to ours obviously DID take into account leap years and the Mayan's didn't need to account for them because they didn't use 365 days as a "year"... so Leaping wasn't an issue.

A solar calendar is just dumb... that is the problem.

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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2012, 02:38:27 PM »
The Mayan long-count calendar was made for mathematically perfect distances between celebrations, regardless of the inconsistencies of a solar calendar...

For example, if we used it, we'd celebrate Christmas every year an exact measure of hours from the last one and after several years, it would be in the summer, because actual days aren't that mathematically perfect. That kind of thing was important to their mythology.

They had their number crunchers figure all this out for thousands of years in advance, and that's what this whole 2012 thing is about. They figured they'd figure out a new one later. There's no prophecy of doomsday, just a note for a trip to Office Max for new Long Count software.

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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2012, 02:58:54 PM »
crap, that is why they did it, so we would have to pay for the upgrade.  Great.  They are worse than apple. ;)

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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2012, 03:06:51 PM »
how about if you reflect 314... on a vertical axis that is
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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2012, 03:28:48 PM »
how about if you reflect 314... on a vertical axis that is

I never knew that... quite clever.

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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2012, 03:46:30 PM »
how about if you reflect 314... on a vertical axis that is

That's awesome.
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Re: Pie anyone?
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2012, 04:25:38 PM »
that is clever, except it's pi, not pie.  so this whole thread is about the wrong thing.