Anybody doing anything for Pi Day?

[davidm]

Weebl and Bob - Pie

[N9IWP]

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

[Pai325]

I am going to a Pi geocaching event with my daughter. One in the morning and one in the evening.

[kayaker]

I have the date circled on my calendar.

[Meurglys]

I usually have some cake on Pi day…
But it is my birthday, so I think I’m allowed!

[What_Exit]

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 PithonsHoly Grail. But Bing at least dealt with the pressing issues of swallows.

[CalMeacham]

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!

[Aspenglow]

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!

[davidm]

@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

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!

[Crafter_Man]

Pi? Screw Pi!

tau (τ), which is 2π, is much more important than π; many more equations in math and physics contain 2π versus π.

[Bullitt]

Happy π Day!
I just may go out and buy a pie.

[Dendarii_Dame]

@kayaker

I have the date circled on my calendar.

[Baker]

Well, I baked pie at work this morning but this afternoon I’m watching a Gamera movie marathon while drinking Guinness and eating snacks.

[UncleRojelio]

Pi Day is a big day for geocachers. There are a couple of souvenieirs available today as well as tons of events.

[ftg]

I’m working on setting up the external HD for my new … Raspberry Pi. (Get it? Pi? C’mon, it’s funny because it’s true.)

[rocking_chair]

had a family thing with tastykake pies.

[Spiderman]

@What_Exit

Google appears to have failed to celebrate either Pi Day or the 40th anniversary of Monty PithonsHoly Grail. But Bing at least dealt with the pressing issues of swallows.

No, that’s for the other March 14[sup]th[/sup] celebration.

[Pai325]

@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!

[Happy_Lendervedder]

I’m eating a huge slice of key lime pie right this very second.

[wolf_meister]

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?)