# 8.53973422

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-53973422/624174>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 5, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-53973422/624174 "2012-06-05T16:36:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-53973422/624174/1 "2012-06-05T16:36:36Z")

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I started two threads that were illogical, ill conceived, ill advised, and ill other things as well. Just plain ill, not to be confused with Des Plaines, Ill. Will return in a month or so. Should have just started with a pit thread minus monetary mention.

The thread title is the numerical representation of pie (pi \*e).

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**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-53973422/624174/2 "2012-06-05T16:47:31Z")

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A pie party! What kind of pie? I can bring some nice, icy limeade!

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-53973422/624174/3 "2012-06-05T16:51:54Z")

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Thread title not to be confused with 8.675309, which is the numerical representation of Jenny

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-53973422/624174/4 "2012-06-05T17:42:12Z")

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> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> The thread title is the numerical representation of pie (pi \*e).

Not without the “…” it isn’t.

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**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-53973422/624174/5 "2012-06-05T18:17:28Z")

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also not to be confused with 1,249,646.0330497, the cake number.

c - speed of light (2.99792458 x 10[sup]8[/sup] m/s)  
a[sub]0[/sub] - Bohr radius (0.52918 Å)  
k - Boltzmann’s constant (2.8989 x 10[sup]-3[/sup] J/K)  
e - base of natural logarithm (2.718281828459)

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-53973422/624174/6 "2012-06-05T18:40:27Z")

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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Thread title not to be confused with 8.675309, which is the numerical representation of Jenny

Nor with 8.345404, which is the weight of a gallon of water.

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-53973422/624174/7 "2012-06-05T19:51:49Z")

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Since the OP is announcing a voluntary sabbatical, I’m going to close this thread.