Happy Pi Day!

[Bakkan]

HAPPY PI DAY!!!

Remember to eat a piece of pie at 1:59:26!

Remember, pi=sqrt(6*(1+1/4+1/9+1/16+...))

Alternative compliments for Pi Day include "Transcendental Pi Day!"

Remember also that when you celebrate Pi day, you celebrate with millions of math geeks around the world.

Also, Happy Birthday Albert Einstein!

Oh, and Happy Birthday me! :smallcool:

One Million Digits of Pi (http://www.eveandersson.com/pi/digits/1000000)

[The Rose Dragon]

Why is it Pi Day today, exactly?

[Bakkan]

Because 3/14 ~ 3.14 ~ Pi!

[The Rose Dragon]

Oh, because you Americans can't be bothered to write dates in the correct order.

Today is 14 / 03 / 2009. Not 3 / 14 / 2009. Get it right.

[Bakkan]

Ah, but in the European method, we never have a Pi day. I make allowances for that reason alone :smalltongue:

[Sneak]

Oh, because you Americans can't be bothered to write dates in the correct order.

Today is 14 / 03 / 2009. Not 3 / 14 / 2009. Get it right.

A little judgmental there, eh?

If we did it that way, there would NEVER be a pi day! :O

:smalltongue:

Happy 3/14.

@^: Ninja'd. Great minds think alike, I suppose. :smalltongue:

[The Rose Dragon]

Yeah, and see how awesome we Europeans turn out to be. :smallamused:

[Mauve Shirt]

Hooray pie! I will have to get some.

[Dallas-Dakota]

:smallannoyed:
I am annoyed at the americna mont/day/year instead of the proper day/month/year.

It just doesn't make sense!
:smallannoyed:

[Szilard]

I don't really care myself.

Anyway, a friend of mine was born at 1:59 on a Pi Day long ago.:smalltongue:

[Recaiden]

:smallannoyed:
I am annoyed at the americna mont/day/year instead of the proper day/month/year.

It just doesn't make sense!
:smallannoyed:

Yes it does. If you only had the 1st thing, you would only know it was a 14th, while we would know it was FebruaryMarch.

[The Blackbird]

Wait... Did I hear...PIE:smallbiggrin:
I totally forgot it was pi day that is AWESOME:smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin::smallbiggrin:

[The Rose Dragon]

Day is shorter than the month which is shorter than the year which is shorter than AD - BC. This is why it's Day / Month / Year / AD - BC.

Americans screw up the order by placing Day between Year and Month.

[Szilard]

When Americans say the date, they say March 14th, or March the 14th, instead of the 14th of March. To us, 3/14/09 makes more sense. I just don't care.

Now back to the pi(e). :smalltongue:

[Thufir]

If we did it that way, there would NEVER be a pi day! :O

Sure there would. Instead of using the digits, we'd just use an old, but remarkably accurate approximation: 22/7.

[The Rose Dragon]

Sure there would. Instead of using the digits, we'd just use an old, but remarkably accurate approximation: 22/7.

I'm not sure if I wanna kill you for bringing a rational number into a day about Pi or if I wanna have your babies for remembering that.

[Szilard]

Weird, I was just talking about 22/7 to a friend of mine the other day. Then again, Pi day was coming up.

[FdL]

:smallannoyed:
I am annoyed at the americna mont/day/year instead of the proper day/month/year.

It just doesn't make sense!
:smallannoyed:


Day is shorter than the month which is shorter than the year which is shorter than AD - BC. This is why it's Day / Month / Year / AD - BC.

Americans screw up the order by placing Day between Year and Month.

Yes, I agree. It's a logical arrangement of units after all.

What I see is that the system used in USA is one of those things that has resisted change from habitual use, out of "cultural stubbornness", not unlike the Imperial System.

And in this particular case of the date, I see it could be influenced by grammatical features of the english language. But that should be irrelevant for a numbering system.

[Thufir]

I'm not sure if I wanna kill you for bringing a rational number into a day about Pi or if I wanna have your babies for remembering that.

Do both! Like a mantis!

[The Rose Dragon]

Do both! Like a mantis!

Now I really wanna have your babies.

Never mind the fact that I'm male and biologically incapable of having babies.

[Totally Guy]

At least this one was posted on the actual day unlike that PI day we had a couple of weeks back. How is that possible?

I do like the logic of dates working in a line but I think it'd be more logical backwards.

19,876
19,877
19,978

The numbers furthest left progress slower than those on the right.

2009/03/14 16:29:30

^ works best logically.

Edit: Plus if you're saving a live file with the date you can't use "/"
So it'd be

trackerschedule090228.xls
trackerschedule090315.xls
trackerschedule090318.xls
trackerschedule090402.xls

Sorted by name order.

trackerschedule020409.xls
trackerschedule150309.xls
trackerschedule180309.xls
trackerschedule280209.xls

When the computer sorts these dd/mm/yy formated files they become impossible to logically track. I've got work files saved daily going back months.

[Szilard]

At least this one was posted on the actual day unlike that PI day we had a couple of weeks back. How is that possible?

I do like the logic of dates working in a line but I think it'd be more logical backwards.

19,876
19,877
19,978

The numbers furthest left progress slower than those on the right.

2009/03/14 16:29:30

^ works best logically.

I think that is how Hungarians do it.

[Dragonrider]

Americans use yyyymmdd sometimes, Glug...the only one you NEVER see here is the dd/mm/yyyy. mm/dd/yyyy is the most common.


I have to make a pie. :smallbiggrin:

[Totally Guy]

Americans use yyyymmdd sometimes,

Probably because that one is the best for doing files.

The other difference between places is the way people say the date.

I'd say it's the fourteenth of march. I'm sure a lot of you say March fourteenth.

There's more humourous ones than that. I remember hearing on some American cop show "Put yer hands up yer bum!" which I thought he wanted the felon to place his hands in his bottom.

Thanks to message boards like this one and the international education they bring I now know that if to were to put your hands down your pants when confronted with that situation they'd probably think you had a concealed weapon! Lucky escape I tell you.

[Rawhide]

International Date Format (an ISO International Standard):
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - Simple Explanation (http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date)
Wikipedia Article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601)
ISO Standard (requires purchase) (http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=40874)

[Deathslayer7]

I bet you the Europeans are just making a fuss about it because they don't get any pie. :smalltongue:

Happy Pie Day! :smallbiggrin:

[SMEE]

International Date Format (an ISO International Standard):
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - Simple Explanation (http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/iso-date)
Wikipedia Article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601)
ISO Standard (requires purchase) (http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=40874)

International Date Format is made of win. And chocolate. Mostly chocolate. :smallbiggrin:

[The Rose Dragon]

I bet you the Europeans are just making a fuss about it because they don't get any pie. :smalltongue:

Happy Pie Day! :smallbiggrin:

I'm sorry, I was too busy gorging my face in copious amounts of pie every single day. What'd you say again?

[FdL]

2009/03/14 16:29:30

^ works best logically.

Edit: Plus if you're saving a live file with the date you can't use "/"
So it'd be

trackerschedule090228.xls
trackerschedule090315.xls
trackerschedule090318.xls
trackerschedule090402.xls

Sorted by name order.

trackerschedule020409.xls
trackerschedule150309.xls
trackerschedule180309.xls
trackerschedule280209.xls

When the computer sorts these dd/mm/yy formated files they become impossible to logically track. I've got work files saved daily going back months.

You're right, but this is only part of it, and in any case I think it's expected that date formats are different for computer filename organisation. In any case, it's computers which should adapt to the date format, and not the other way around. Date names are probably more widely used outside computers than in them (have historically been, actually).


I bet you the Europeans are just making a fuss about it because they don't get any pie. :smalltongue:

Happy Pie Day! :smallbiggrin:

No, not europeans. More like "rest of the world". Which is bigger than just USA and Europe, mind you.

[Emperor Ing]

I'm sorry, I was too busy gorging my face in copious amounts of pie every single day. What'd you say again?

Today is definitely not Pie Day because you refuse to bend the rules a little bit to make 14/3 into 3/14
:smalltongue:
*casts Quickened Mass Summon Pie*

[Dragonrider]

My pie is in the oven currently. Pictures when it's finished. :smallbiggrin:

I coudn't write pi on the top crust because it's a crumble top pie, but to make up for it when I put the bottom crust in I wrote pi all over the place instead of just poking little holes.

[randman22222]

My pie is in the oven currently. Pictures when it's finished. :smallbiggrin:

I coudn't write pi on the top crust because it's a crumble top pie, but to make up for it when I put the bottom crust in I wrote pi all over the place instead of just poking little holes.

What kind of pie is it?
And do you think a slice could survive shipment to the middle east? :smallconfused:

[The Rose Dragon]

Meanwhile, I miss lil' Cassie. Does anyone still have contact with her? I haven't seen her here for some time.

[Thufir]

Now I really wanna have your babies.

Never mind the fact that I'm male and biologically incapable of having babies.

Quite tempted to sig this...

[The Rose Dragon]

Quite tempted to sig this...

Do it! Our love must be displayed for all future generations to see!

[Thufir]

Do it! Our love must be displayed for all future generations to see!

Quickly! To the Shipping Thread! Away!

...I got tired of waiting for someone else to say it...

[The Rose Dragon]

Quickly! To the Shipping Thread! Away!

...I got tired of waiting for someone else to say it...

You might wanna check the shipping permissions thread before you get too carried away with it, though.

[Dragonrider]

It's a peach pie. And I'll go take a picture....

Okay. Pictures!

Peach pie:
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t3/soggypoptart/100_5579.jpg
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t3/soggypoptart/100_5578.jpg

And this was also on my camera from yesterday - cake balls:
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t3/soggypoptart/100_5576.jpg

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[Sneak]

I'm making chocolate pie!

Mmm.

Pie.

[Dragonrider]

I'm making chocolate pie!

Mmm.

Pie.

I hope you're saying that in the correct voice. :smallbiggrin:

[KilltheToy]

I would make pie, but I have no pie mix :smallfrown:. So I'm not sure I can truly celebrate pi day. Perhaps I should put it on my list of days that deserve pie, along with Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[Blue Ghost]

Happy Pi Day! I did not know how widespread the celebration of this holiday would be, but I'm glad the Playground remembered.
Oh, and this is also the official beginning of Evil Twin Week in the Playground.
*smashes infernal pies in everyone's face*

[Dragonrider]

I would make pie, but I have no pie mix :smallfrown:. So I'm not sure I can truly celebrate pi day. Perhaps I should put it on my list of days that deserve pie, along with Thanksgiving and Christmas.

You don't need pie mix.

To make a crust you need (these are U.S. measurements, but if you're not American and want to make it I'm sure you can find a conversion chart through Google)

2.5 C flour
1/3 C sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 C butter, softened

cut together until well mixed. At

4-5 TBSP COLD water

Knead together and set aside. Prepare filling - I used 4 12 (?) oz cans of peaches but the juice from only one can. Dump peaches into saucepan; add approx. 3 TBSP of corn starch plus sugar and cinnamon to taste. While sauce is thickening, divide the dough for the crust in half. Roll out on a floured board/counter. Put bottom crust in pie pan. Pour filling into crust. Put top crust on. Crimp edges. Bake at 350O degrees Fahrenheit for approximately 30 minutes.

:smallbiggrin:

Happy Pi Day.

[Lupy]

We had blueberry pie for my Dad's birthday.

But I knew the secret truth behind the pie... was pi.

However, he was 48, and not 31, that would have made the pie made of win.

:smallbiggrin:

[KilltheToy]

You don't need pie mix.

To make a crust you need (these are U.S. measurements, but if you're not American and want to make it I'm sure you can find a conversion chart through Google)

2.5 C flour
1/3 C sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 C butter, softened

cut together until well mixed. At

4-5 TBSP COLD water

Knead together and set aside. Prepare filling - I used 4 12 (?) oz cans of peaches but the juice from only one can. Dump peaches into saucepan; add approx. 3 TBSP of corn starch plus sugar and cinnamon to taste. While sauce is thickening, divide the dough for the crust in half. Roll out on a floured board/counter. Put bottom crust in pie pan. Pour filling into crust. Put top crust on. Crimp edges. Bake at 350O degrees Fahrenheit for approximately 30 minutes.

:smallbiggrin:

Happy Pi Day.

Don't worry. I'm Texan.

Thanks for the recipe. Would you happen to have one that would be a good filling for an Oreo pie?

Also, my dad made a coconut creme pie. He's awesome like that :smallwink:. The thing is, I don't really care for coconut creme pie :smallfrown:. So we have a problem. Who wants my pie?

[Renegade Paladin]

I'm sorry, I was too busy gorging my face in copious amounts of pie every single day. What'd you say again?
That you're fat? :smalltongue:

[The Rose Dragon]

That you're fat? :smalltongue:

I weigh only 175 pounds at 6'2", so you're wrong. :smallbiggrin:

[Deathslayer7]

hey that's like me. expcept im 6'4"" and weigh 175 lbs. :smallbiggrin:

and here i thought i was alone in the world.

[dish]

I bet you the Europeans are just making a fuss about it because they don't get any pie. :smalltongue:

Happy Pie Day! :smallbiggrin:

But we do. It's just on Pi Approximation Day.

It's just like the way the Europeans have a Mothering Sunday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday) which is different from the American (and rest of the world) Mother's Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day).

Reminds all those in the Playground (including self) who celebrate "Mothering Sunday" that it is on the 22nd of March this year.

[Balgus]

How come there are so many random days in March that i have never heard about?

3/3/09 is Square root day (actually square day)
3/4 is Command and Conquer day (March Forth)
3/14 is Pi day
3/21 is Global DND Game Day

Why March?

[InaVegt]

Nonononono, Pi day isn't Pie day.

Pi day is the 8th of May in most of the world, 5th of August in the places where they use the American system.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I had a curry with potatos cut into squares and sweet potatos cut into squares and fried on Square Root Day. On Pi Day I had an apple pi. It was yummy.

[Alteran]

I'm forced to admit that given a choice between cake and pie on Pi day, I chose cake.

*shame*

[Rawhide]

I'm forced to admit that given a choice between cake and pie on Pi day, I chose cake.

*shame*

The cake is a lie.