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Happy Pi Day!

#1

Post by PStamatiou » Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 5:02 AM UTC

That is all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

Re: Happy Pi Day!

#2

Post by yangyang42 » Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 5:22 AM UTC

Thanks for the reminder... "March 14 also happens to be Albert Einstein's birthday."

Re: Happy Pi Day!

#3

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 5:29 AM UTC

yangyang42 wrote: post #2

Thanks for the reminder... "March 14 also happens to be Albert Einstein's birthday."

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Re: Happy Pi Day!

#4

Post by Tygerdave » Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 5:30 AM UTC

yangyang42 wrote: post #2

Thanks for the reminder... "March 14 also happens to be Albert Einstein's birthday."

ThinkGeek.com is celebrating them both

Re: Happy Pi Day!

#5

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 5:50 AM UTC

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Re: Happy Pi Day!

#6

Post by mleonhard » Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 6:15 AM UTC

3.14159265...

Re: Happy Pi Day!

#7

Post by henning » Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 6:25 AM UTC

here is a benchmark involving computing streaming digits of pi.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=pid...

the lesson i take from the results is if all you're doing is calling a C library (gmp) anyway, it doesn't really matter whether you're using C or Python.

Re: Happy Pi Day!

#8

Post by aneesh » Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 7:00 AM UTC

mleonhard wrote: post #6

3.14159265...

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 :)

Re: Happy Pi Day!

#9

Post by technoguyrob » Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 7:15 AM UTC

Here's a Wikipedia article I wrote about a year ago on an interesting "property" of pi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_point

Re: Happy Pi Day!

#10

Post by kryptos » Fri, Mar 14, 2008, 8:06 AM UTC

Has anyone seen the film 'pi'?If not, this would be a fine day to see it!

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