# I dunno what Ray had in mind **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 14, 1999, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765 "1999-11-14T01:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765/1 "1999-11-14T01:02:00Z")
I don’t _ **care** _ how many decimal places you know it to. I just want to know why it was named after the 16th letter of the Greek Alphabet? Ray (Why not American [http://cs.nyu.edu~yap/gifs/hlx/pi.gif](http://cs.nyu.edu~yap/gifs/hlx/pi.gif) ) ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765/2 "1999-11-14T01:29:00Z")
Nano, if you’re going to post invisible topic, you should at least do us the courtesy of having the secrets of the Illuminati in the OP. Heck, if you were posting about Scientology we could speculate about how They Had Gotten To You. This is no fun. * * * “Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.” - Bertrand Russell ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765/3 "1999-11-14T01:30:00Z")
Damn! Who gave this thread a title and ruined my (weak) joke? ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765/4 "1999-11-14T01:31:00Z")
This topic has been surgically altered. ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765/5 "1999-11-14T01:32:00Z")
Shit! Sorry, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765/6 "1999-11-14T01:34:00Z")
'Sokay. Not many people would have gone to the effort to get into an invisible thread anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765/7 "1999-11-14T04:41:00Z")
This thread was my first attempt at the “Pi” thread: [http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/003641.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/003641.html) I stupidly tried to put only an HTML tag in this one’s heading, and it thus showed no title at all. Nickrz, maybe you should further demostrate your surgical talents by burying your patient. . .in order to put it out of its misery. Ray (who should’ve remained as nameless as this thread) ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765/8 "1999-11-14T12:43:00Z")
_Invisible Threads_ - GQ for the imperceptible man? ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 1999, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765/9 "1999-11-16T17:56:00Z")
“Pi” is for “perimeter”. * * * John W. Kennedy “Compact is becoming contract; man only earns and pays.” – Charles Williams ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 1999, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dunno-what-ray-had-in-mind/4765/10 "1999-11-17T06:07:00Z")
You think Sue Grafton will use that for her next book? She’s up to P, isn’t she? And “P is for Pneumonia” doesn’t have the ring to it of “Pi is for Perimeter”…