So, what are you doing Pi-day?

[Sugarpop]

Strictly speaking, it's pi approximation day. Anyway, it's coming up next weekend. Saturday I'll be preparing me some... Pastries.

How about you?

 

[Agent Intellect]

I'm going to buy everyone one of these:

 

[Wish]

I will be reading Life of Pi cover to cover

 

[Anthile]

I'll rewatch Pi, of course.

 

[citrusbreath95]

I will be reading Life of Pi cover to cover

I'm with ya on that
Maybe I can memorize the first oh, 50 or so numbers of pi... hmmm.

Here's a pi day song I found. I think the digits of pi were composed to musical notes for the violin (I can learn to play this for pi day!!! yeah, I found something else to do...

YouTube- Pi Day Song: A Piece of Pi (violin music for Pi Day)

 

[warryer]

Probably watching TV.

I remember celebrating mole day back in high school chemistry.

6:02 AM on Oct 23.

 

[Cognisant]

Mmmm Pi.

I'm going to buy everyone one of these:

*twitch*

 

[Hawkeye]

Probably something similar to what I did at 12:34:56 on 07/08/09

Giving that little moment a quiet 'Woo!'.

 

[ijustprotectedmyidentity]

Probably watching TV.

I remember celebrating mole day back in high school chemistry.

6:02 AM on Oct 23.

ahhahaha very unique, i forgot what mole was though care to explain?

 

[echoplex]

I'll be dancing circles around everyone.

Interestingly, this should occur at about 3:49:20 AM, for maximum effectiveness. I wouldn't want to be dancing ellipses around people.

 

[Alice?]

We should have a Pi party on the forum!
(I have no life.)

 

[Cogito]

We should have a Pi party on the forum!

If someone cares to provide the drinks, I'll. . . happily consume them.

Oh, yeah. And napkins. I'll bring the napkins.

 

[Alice?]

If someone cares to provide the drinks, I'll. . . happily consume them.

Oh, yeah. And napkins. I'll bring the napkins.

I'll bring the silly party hats.
Nose-goes on the clean-up duties!

 

[walfin]

I might write something in python. Maybe something that draws a python chasing its own tail.

 

[BigApplePi]

Strictly speaking, it's pi approximation day. Anyway, it's coming up next weekend. Saturday I'll be preparing me some... Pastries.

How about you?

YouTube- Mathematical Pi (Full Song)

That musical composition for Pi was "off." Not accurate. Here is Pi exactly if you dare to look. They say this is the most accurate rendition of Pi ever presented. If you can find a more accurate version, I'll invert the difference and present it to you in gold.

Spoiler

C/D exactly!

 

[Maiken]

Strictly speaking, it's pi approximation day. Anyway, it's coming up next weekend. Saturday I'll be preparing me some... Pastries.

How about you?

Ehmm, what is pi approximation day?? (Yes, I'm stupid.)

But I'll bring pizza

 

[triggerhippie]

I'll be spending it with a needle and a lined sheet of paper.

 

[Trebuchet]

Probably something similar to what I did at 12:34:56 on 07/08/09

Giving that little moment a quiet 'Woo!'.

I remember 12:34 on 5/6/78. It was a lazy weekend day and my family celebrated by lying around talking about it for a minute.

 

[Sugarpop]

Well, did you?

Interestingly, Norwegian Google celebrates the occasion, while English Google does not.

Did you know this also happens to be Einstein's 131th birthday?

 

[BigApplePi]

Hey. What's happenin'? It's my birthday today! I'm exactly ∞ years old today -- give or take a few million. Every time the Earth comes 'round to this point.

 

[BigApplePi]

Well, did you?

Interestingly, Norwegian Google celebrates the occasion, while English Google does not.

Did you know this also happens to be Einstein's 131th birthday?

Here's United Statesian Google today. Maybe they were late:

 

[WorkInProgress]

you guys reminded me of this-
YouTube- Pi Video by Hard n' Phirm

 

[FusionKnight]

Actually Pi Approximation Day is July 22 (22/7)...

 

[Paradroid]

You should spend the Pi-Day in your Mathematics room,drawing circles and such.
But if your house doesn't have a math room,then use the air.

 

[Sparrow]

Finishing 3 projects that were supposed to be done last week. No progress, yet.

 

[Mary]

I'm playing any pi related songs I can find. And drawing circles like crazy.

 

[Sugarpop]

Actually Pi Approximation Day is July 22 (22/7)...

QFT

Pi Approximation Day is observed on July 22, because of the Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes' first rough approximation of π as being 22/7. [Archimedes was able a few years later to calculate a much-better approximation of π.] However, this may be considered misleading, as all cited dates are "approximation days" (since π is an irrational number) and 22/7 is actually a closer approximation of π than 3.14 is. Typically, March 14 is more popular for countries using the month/day format and the 22nd of July is more popular for countries using the day/month format.

 

[BigApplePi]

What was Pi doing today? Until it got dark I spent a lot of it circling around picking up diameters knocked off the trees during the storm. Just like these guys:

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...es?q=fallen+sticks&um=1&hl=en&sa=G&tbs=isch:1

 

[citrusbreath95]

Well, did you?



Did you know this also happens to be Einstein's 131th birthday?

SERIOUSLY!?!?!? I'm depressed I didn't know this sooner...

Well, I actually did what I was suppose to pi day! I read life of Pi, yeah. Well now I have to do a book report on it by tommorow (not to mention it is 10:44 p.m. where I am) Happy Pi day everyone! (insert imaginative pi day greeting card here)

 

[Marbas]

Complex Analysis, Toplogy, and Tensor Calculus. That's what was done on my pi day.


What? Math makes me happy.

 

[Chronomar]

Interestingly, Norwegian Google celebrates the occasion, while English Google does not.

My English Google celebrated the occasion...

And what I did was to memorize the Pi song, go look up stuff about Pi, learn about Phi (for variety), and then eat solely round foods for lunch and dinner. Unluckily, I did not prepare for Pi day, in the area of buying round foods, so I ate only tortillas. But that was pretty good.

Now we have 364 days to do...nothing...until the next Pi (approximation) Day!

 

[BigApplePi]

Complex Analysis, Toplogy, and Tensor Calculus. That's what was done on my pi day.


What? Math makes me happy.

Marbas. I'm glad those make you happy. I loved analysis and topology but dropped out of grad school. What does complex analysis cover? I took a course in Tensor Analysis in grad school, but never paid attention. They didn't say what the point was. Used in relativity theory?

 

[Latro]

I wrote a little pi song using the first sixty or so digits of the hexadecimal expansion of pi. It's awesome in its awfulness, as it jolts up like two octaves at complete random and things like that. It might work better with the octal or decimal expansion, but then you're confined to a much smaller space of notes. The octal representation would have exactly an octave; the decimal expansion would have 2 more notes than that; while the hexadecimal expansion has one more note than 2 octaves, which is plenty of room to move around. A pity that I don't have an easy tool for conversion to arbitrary bases, as having exactly two octaves or maybe even three octaves might be nice (as would a nice program to transcribe the digits directly into sheet music from a text file).

 

[Marbas]

Marbas. I'm glad those make you happy. I loved analysis and topology but dropped out of grad school. What does complex analysis cover? I took a course in Tensor Analysis in grad school, but never paid attention. They didn't say what the point was. Used in relativity theory?

Currently a 4th semester undergrad actually. Just really really focused, also had a head start in High School because I taught myself, Real Analysis, Multi-Var, and Linear Algebra there. Really though, I tend to get out of my depth and push myself a bit hard.



Complex Analysis is basically Real Analysis on complex numbers. You define integration and differentiation and such on complex numbers. Some results in the field can actually be used to simplify integrals. So it has *GASP* applications.

And yes, tensor calc can be used for relativity theory. There's also lots of interesting mathematical content there, from a pure perspective. Lots of fun stuff with multi-linear mappings.

 

[BigApplePi]

Terrific. Maybe you can make up for where I left off. Let me know anything about your progress if you'd care to. I loved real analysis. I had perfect notes of all the proofs with embellishments. That was in undergrad. When I went to grad school they repeated the same course with an unworthy teacher. I got bored and left the class. Had to leave grad school early. Was on the track for a Ph.D. in math but it was just a dream.

Lost all my notes when a jerk whose car I foolishly left them in took the car 500 miles away and sold the car. Broke my heart. I was too stupid to try and retrieve what I'd left in his car. That was many years ago.

Never heard of *GASP*. Are you after math or physics as a degree?

 

[Hawkeye]

I spent approximately 3.14 seconds driving 88mph down a country road in pitch black with my headlights off.

It was an experience!

 

[Marbas]

Never heard of *GASP*. Are you after math or physics as a degree?

*GASP* is used to denote the action of gasping. My goal is a math degree for now, but it's not a sure thing.

Personally, taking notes is hard for me, instead there's a notebook, with all the exercises from every chapter done. For the current Real Analysis course anyways (Multi-var). There's tendency for me to study subjects that have nothing to do with my current courses.



Yeah, not looking forward to retaking Real in grad. Unless it's like crazy measure theory stuff.

Then it'd be fun.

Why couldn't you finish grad, or is it personal?

 

[BigApplePi]

I spent approximately 3.14 seconds driving 88mph down a country road in pitch black with my headlights off.

It was an experience!

You had time to check your odometer?

YouTube- Speeding car starts drifting at 95 mph

 

[Hawkeye]

You had time to check your odometer?

YouTube- Speeding car starts drifting at 95 mph

Well, it's what my little SatNav estimated I was travelling at. I couldn't read the one on the car as the backlight was off. ^^


[EDIT]

Wowzers! What a lucky sod he was.

 

[BigApplePi]

*GASP* is used to denote the action of gasping. My goal is a math degree for now, but it's not a sure thing.

Personally, taking notes is hard for me, instead there's a notebook, with all the exercises from every chapter done. For the current Real Analysis course anyways (Multi-var). There's tendency for me to study subjects that have nothing to do with my current courses.



Yeah, not looking forward to retaking Real in grad. Unless it's like crazy measure theory stuff.

Then it'd be fun.

Why couldn't you finish grad, or is it personal?

*GASP*? I thought it might mean Graduate Applied Special Pursuits.

It was personal. As a shy INTP I had lived at home all through college. Not good. I lost my way. Social things distracted me having finally left home. I had no experience outside school.

 

[BigApplePi]

*GASP* is used to denote the action of gasping. My goal is a math degree for now, but it's not a sure thing.

Personally, taking notes is hard for me, instead there's a notebook, with all the exercises from every chapter done. For the current Real Analysis course anyways (Multi-var). There's tendency for me to study subjects that have nothing to do with my current courses.



Yeah, not looking forward to retaking Real in grad. Unless it's like crazy measure theory stuff.

Then it'd be fun.

Why couldn't you finish grad, or is it personal?

I've heard of measure theory but never got to it. Don't know what it is.

Anyway, question: Have you heard of something called "Existence Theorems", if they use this term? In real analysis those are supposedly where one wonders if a theorem might be true. On failure to prove it true when it looks like it might be true, one tries to prove it false. Then one finds some rare case where the theorem is false by showing the existence of a false case. Since I lost my notes I don't know of any.

 

[Melkor]

I'm gonna eat Big Apple pi!

By which I mean, give her/him the best oral sex ever!

Hopefully this process excludes the usage of apples.

 

[BigApplePi]

Melkor. While your offer may seem to some to be generous indeed not only is this NOT pi day but this is an INTP bulletin board. As such I am going to have to refer you to Adymus who will tell you that while using your Si is fine, using Se is out of place for an INTP. Please follow through with this and report back here for more instructions.

 

[Marbas]

It was personal. As a shy INTP I had lived at home all through college. Not good. I lost my way. Social things distracted me having finally left home. I had no experience outside school.

Ouch! Well, we can't win them all? Consoling words are not my forte.

Anyway, question: Have you heard of something called "Existence Theorems", if they use this term? In real analysis those are supposedly where one wonders if a theorem might be true. On failure to prove it true when it looks like it might be true, one tries to prove it false. Then one finds some rare case where the theorem is false by showing the existence of a false case. Since I lost my notes I don't know of any.

Most of the existence theorems that I've seen are in Diff EQ, like "The solution of a differential equation exists if...". Or theorems that tell whether or not a certain mathematical object can or must exist, like a homeomorphism between certain types of spaces.

Never head of the type you are talking about.