Happy Pi Day

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

Ahem. Cough cough. The pi moment cannot occur on March 14. Ahem. Doing so would truncate the '159(etc.)' that follows the first three digits. Therefore, a proper observance of the pi moment would occur shortly before 4 a.m. on March 15. Cough. I would gladly consume pie at that time. Ahem. Or at any other time, but then not in connection with this number.

Ahem. I find it regrettable that there is no similar annual observance of the root of the natural logarithm (around February 21, varying by leap year) or the Feigenbaum constant (around April 21). Granted, I would not be interested in consuming logs. Nor feigenbaums. Ahem.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Ahem. Cough cough. The pi moment cannot occur on March 14. Ahem. Doing so would truncate the '159(etc.)' that follows the first three digits. Therefore, a proper observance of the pi moment would occur shortly before 4 a.m. on March 15. Cough. I would gladly consume pie at that time. Ahem. Or at any other time, but then not in connection with this number.

Ahem. I find it regrettable that there is no similar annual observance of the root of the natural logarithm (around February 21, varying by leap year) or the Feigenbaum constant (around April 21). Granted, I would not be interested in consuming logs. Nor feigenbaums. Ahem.

Yule logs would keep until February. Or marzipan logs. And a Feigenbaum is a fig tree, so eating figs would make sense. You could make a log cake with fig paste in it, even...

(I got lost about halfway through the last page, but looks like normality is overrated. Glad to have that confirmed.)

 

[MrPixel]

Therefore, a proper observance of the pi moment would occur shortly before 4 a.m. on March 15.

Not really. If we're talking about 24-hour clocks here and their general expression, we're now at 3.140159, and that doesn't work, either. It's a conundrum. The "1:59" on my phone there was good enough.

When some retail clerk insists that I give them my phone number, since I live somewhat near St. Louis with its 314 area code, "my" number is 314-159-2654. A few data entry systems will barf on the "159" since '1' cannot be used as the first digit of an exchange, but most of the time it goes through. Funniest experience with this was making a purchase at a DIY store in a college town, and the young clerk looked at me funny and then chuckled. She must have been a student and got it right away.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I know

But it’s pronounced ‘lay-teck’

Pero... ¡No jodas!

English, why? It's tecks! It's written with an X!

I thought we'd be talking about, like, the fruity stuff versus the savory ones.

Sadly, the only flavored π here is the chart one. It's a math nerd thread, not a food nerd thread

 

[SmilingLez]

Three point one four,
Digits stretching on and on,
A puzzle of math.
Endless in its mystery,
Numbers swirling, never stops.

 

[BeechLeaf]

(Not sure if I can get all these links right.)
Today's Frazz:

h/t Language Log

 

[anthrodisiac]

Irrational numbers are so crazy.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Pero... ¡No jodas!

Way!

English, why? It's tecks! It's written with an X!

It’s a crazy messed up language

 

[EmilyMiller]

Ahem. Cough cough. The pi moment cannot occur on March 14. Ahem. Doing so would truncate the '159(etc.)' that follows the first three digits. Therefore, a proper observance of the pi moment would occur shortly before 4 a.m. on March 15. Cough. I would gladly consume pie at that time. Ahem. Or at any other time, but then not in connection with this number.

Ahem. I find it regrettable that there is no similar annual observance of the root of the natural logarithm (around February 21, varying by leap year) or the Feigenbaum constant (around April 21). Granted, I would not be interested in consuming logs. Nor feigenbaums. Ahem.

Can we have Euler’s Day on Jan 27th (using European dates)?

 

[EmilyMiller]

a math nerd thread, not a food nerd thread

These are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Would a Venn diagram help ?

 

[anthrodisiac]

I'd love to celebrate Graham's Day, but I'm pretty sure that's well after the heat death of the universe. Bummer.

 

[TheLobster]

I'd love to celebrate Graham's Day, but I'm pretty sure that's well after the heat death of the universe. Bummer.

I'd love to see an e Day, but I suspect such holiday could only be observed like every 4 million years or something, because that's the only time the year may get so leapy that February 71st becomes a possibility.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

These are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Would a Venn diagram help ?

That would be two π charts in a nutshell, minus the nuts.

I'd love to see an e Day, but I suspect such holiday could only be observed like every 4 million years or something, because that's the only time the year can may get so leapy that February 71st becomes a possibility.

*The Kitty starts dancing in a 9:16 aspect ratio*

 

[EmilyMiller]

Way!

It’s a crazy messed up language

To be clear latex as in fetishwear is pronounced ‘lay-tecks,’ it’s only the LaTeX typesetting language that is ‘lay-teck.’

 

[EmilyMiller]

two π

would be τ of course

 

[anthrodisiac]

The real question is when do we celebrate i day?

 

[TheLobster]

The real question is when do we celebrate i day?

Whenever you want! It's all in your head anyway!

 

[KittyOfSteele]

The real question is when do we celebrate i day?

Are you eating Apples® to keep the doc away or something?

 

[EmilyMiller]

The real question is when do we celebrate i day?

I imagine we would

 

[EmilyMiller]

I imagine we would

Damn missed opportunity. What I meant to say was:

It’s complex, but i imagine we would.

Much better

 

[anthrodisiac]

Damn missed opportunity. What I meant to say was:

It’s complex, but i imagine we would.

Much better

Anthy Certified Better Joke.

 

[anthrodisiac]

We could have an i i day, but people might have a negative reaction to that. Or think it's Talk Like a Pirate Day.

 

[BeechLeaf]

What if we combine e day with pi day and i day? Oh drat, that was yesterday.

 

[Cagivagurl]

Sadly a few things:

1. Every single non-zero Real Number possesses a decimal expansion that goes on forever
2. Every single Irrational Real Number possesses a decimal expansion that goes on forever without settling down to repeating a finite string of digits
3. Every Normal Real Number (actually Normal is overkill, there is a weaker requirement but it’s kinda complicated) will contain any given finite string of digits in its decimal expansion not just once but an infinite number of times
4. Most (in a technical sense*) Real Numbers are Normal, but it’s notoriously hard to prove that any given one is - this is one Normal Number: 0.1234568910111213141516…
5. While most mathematicians would be astonished if π was shown to not be Normal, no one has proved that it is, so the assertion made in POI is unproven

Happy ‘π approximation day’

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* The Reals are uncountable, the Normals are uncountable, the Rationals are countable. Hence ‘most’ Real numbers are Normal, in kinda the same way that ‘most’ Real numbers are Irrational. Comparing infinite cardinalities is not straightforward, and it’s easy to be sloppy with language.

Wish Lit supported LaTeX

143

 

[EmilyMiller]

143

143 ≡ 142.9999999999…

0.25 ≡ 0.2499999999…

UPDATE: I’m so dim sometimes