# Anybody doing anything for Pi Day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921 "2015-03-13T17:08:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/21 "2015-03-14T04:45:59Z")
> **[Weebl and Bob - Pie](https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pie)** > > Weebl and Bob - Pie, a Flash Animated video by J. Picking. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/22 "2015-03-14T11:46:04Z")
It is my gaming groups monthly game day. I usually bring food (otherwise I just eat snacks people bring), but today I am also bringing pie (key lime) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/23 "2015-03-14T13:02:42Z")
I am going to a Pi geocaching event with my daughter. One in the morning and one in the evening. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/24 "2015-03-14T13:06:14Z")
I have the date circled on my calendar. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/25 "2015-03-14T13:49:39Z")
I usually have some cake on Pi day… But it is my birthday, so I think I’m allowed! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/26 "2015-03-14T13:50:47Z")
We will swallow some pie at some point today. Google appears to have failed to celebrate either Pi Day or the 40th anniversary of Monty **Pi** thonsHoly Grail. But Bing at least dealt with the pressing issues of swallows. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/27 "2015-03-14T13:53:42Z")
Pepper Mill made Chicken Pot Pie for dinner last night (and tonight) It’s actually Chick-N Pot Pie, made with soy-based chicken substitute, so our vegetarian daughter MilliCal can partake. And MilliCal is, as we speak, making a pudding pie for a party she’s going to tonight. It’s appropriate that Sheldon was reciting pi to a thousand places at the start of this week’s Big Bang. I don’t know anyone who memorized pi to a thousand places, but I did know people who memorized it to a hundred because, you know, it’s _pi_! ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/28 "2015-03-14T14:02:45Z")
Friends are having an Einstein’s birthday event/Mad Hatter tea party/Pi day celebration today. I offered to bring pie, but they requested my chocolate eclairs instead. Oh, well. 🙂 Should still be a fine way to note this very special date! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/29 "2015-03-14T14:19:45Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > It’s a well rounded holiday, but only to 9 decimals of precision. > > I suppose that we could keep adding smaller and smaller fractions of seconds forever, so there’s some moment which will be the PI moment. I wasn’t the only one to realize this. > **[This year's Pi Day is even more special than you know](https://www.vox.com/2015/3/13/8205807/pi-day)** > > Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology,... > [@](#): > > But it doesn’t stop there. As University of Toronto statistician Jeffrey S. Rosenthal has pointed out, at an infinitesimally brief moment just after 9:26:53.58979 am but slightly before 9:26:53.5898 am, we’ll have Pi Instant. > > At this impossibly short moment, our particular civilization’s way of marking the amount of time elapsed since an arbitrary date in history will match perfectly with every single digit of pi, an irrational number that literally never ends (when expressed in a base 10 numbering system, or any system that uses a natural number as its base). And I just slept through it! ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/30 "2015-03-14T14:29:05Z")
Pi? Screw Pi! [tau (τ)](http://www.tauday.com/), which is **2π** , is much more important than π; many more equations in math and physics contain **2π** versus π. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/31 "2015-03-14T14:33:43Z")
_ **Happy π Day!** _ I just may go out and buy a pie. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/32 "2015-03-14T16:35:59Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I have the date circled on my calendar. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/33 "2015-03-14T16:48:45Z")
Well, I baked pie at work this morning but this afternoon I’m watching a Gamera movie marathon while drinking Guinness and eating snacks. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/34 "2015-03-14T18:43:36Z")
Pi Day is a big day for geocachers. There are a couple of souvenieirs available today as well as tons of events. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/35 "2015-03-14T21:26:33Z")
I’m working on setting up the external HD for my new … [Raspberry Pi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi). (Get it? Pi? C’mon, it’s funny because it’s true.) ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/36 "2015-03-14T21:47:12Z")
had a family thing with tastykake pies. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/37 "2015-03-15T00:03:17Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Google appears to have failed to celebrate either Pi Day or the 40th anniversary of Monty **Pi** thonsHoly Grail. But Bing at least dealt with the pressing issues of swallows. No, that’s for the other March 14[sup]th[/sup] celebration. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/38 "2015-03-15T00:14:57Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Pi Day is a big day for geocachers. There are a couple of souvenieirs available today as well as tons of events. I went to an event at 9:26 this morning, then found a puzzle cache, and will go to an event at Perkins where we will all eat pie, of course, at 9:26 tonight. And I’m about as inactive a geocacher as you can find! ---
**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:** [March 15, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/39 "2015-03-15T00:58:36Z")
I’m eating a huge slice of key lime pie right this very second. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921/40 "2015-03-15T01:54:00Z")
Well with just 2.5 hours left of PI day, I’ll ask a PI question. According to Wikipedia, the current record for computing PI was set in Oct, 2014 to an astounding 13.3 trillion decimal places. Then again just how accurately do we really need PI computed? Basically, how accurately can anything (length, area, volume, time, mass, etc) be measured? I would think that the modern limits of measurement are probably 1 part in a billion. So, if we need a value of PI = 3.141592653 we would be measuring something with an accuracy of 1 part in 3 billion. That value of PI has been known for several centuries. Is that all we ever needed up until now? (By the way, I think computing PI is well worth the efforts that people have pursued it. I’m just wondering if 9 decimal places of PI is all we ever needed?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-doing-anything-for-pi-day/714921.md?page=3)