[GZG] Pi Day

Just a brief moment to wish you and yours a happy Pi (3.14) day.....

> Just a brief moment to wish you and yours a happy Pi (3.14) day.....

Ah, but over here it's 14.3 day....  ;-)

Thanks for the thought anyway!  :-)

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lOn 3/14/07, Ground
> Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> wrote:

Most folks do month/year as standard, though, right? So in just 7 short
years we can have Pi Month!

I'll have pumpkin...or apple a la Mode.  :-)

Mk

Sorry, I've gotten in to the habit of writing everything Year, Month, Day.
Four digits for the year, though.

The_Beast

Mark wrote on 03/14/2007 08:19:01 AM:

> On 3/14/07, Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> wrote:

> On 3/14/07, Indy <indy.kochte@gmail.com> wrote:

Only if you drop the leading two digits of the year, a nasty habit I thought
we got out of during the whole Y2K thing, only to see folks backslide... *S*

I'll never forget my 8th grade teacher's phrase to get us to remember the area
of a circle: pie are square, cake are round.

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lOn 3/14/07, Doug
> Evans <devans@nebraska.edu> wrote:

Well, too bad for you. No pi for you. (which means...more for me! :-D )

Mk

The_Beast
> Mark wrote on 03/14/2007 08:19:01 AM:

Pi are square...NOOOOOO...Pie are round, cornbread are square

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l>On 3/14/07, Doug
Evans
> <<mailto:devans@nebraska.edu>devans@nebraska.edu> wrote:

"Who ate all the PIs....?"

Jon (GZG)

> The_Beast
wrote:
> >Just a brief moment to wish you and yours a happy Pi (3.

Sheesh, you guys have to do everything backwards..... Drive on the
wrong side.....  Next thing you'll have us using metric....... :-)

You probably won't celebrate mole day either then....  :-)

http://www.moleday.org

:-)

Maybe germy can make some minis for mole day......

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lOn 3/14/07, Hudak,
> Michael <mihudak@state.pa.us> wrote:

Heh. It's on *my* calendar. :-D   (but then again, mine's a homemade
calendar - and as a side bar, today is World Book Day)

Mk

Pies can be rectangular, at least in the South.

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At Carnegie Mellon where I work, the students in the math department often
spend the night before Pi day writing Pi to some obscene decimal place along
the walkways in chalk. I've always wanted to rub out a few numbers and put in
some cherries and apples...

John K. Lerchey Assistant Director for Incident Response Information Security
Office Carnegie Mellon University

> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Hudak, Michael wrote:

> Just a brief moment to wish you and yours a happy Pi (3.14) day.....

Wang, Kenny LCDR, at an undisclosed location, said:
> Pi are square...NOOOOOO...Pie are round, cornbread are square

Cornbread are round! It's best made in a cast iron skillet. Pi are round too.
Brownie are square.

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lHudak, Michael
wrote:
> Sheesh, you guys have to do everything backwards..... Drive on the
As usual, you Septics are the backward ones -- not only do you drive on
the wrong side of the road (or from what I've heard, on any part of the road
that doesn't have a bigger vehicle on it physically forcing you to
not occupy that space... B-P) and have this atavistic need to ruin
perfectly good words by leaving out letters (just what is a kidnaper anyway,
and do I really want to know exactly how you nape kids?), but
you also have weird units that no-one else on the planet uses (I have
managed to establish, after nearly 20 years of research, that a US gallon is
based on a thing called the Winchester wine gallon, but can I find a proper
definition of a Winchester wine gallon? Can I heck!), and you still can't
appreciate that the rest of the world uses *SI* units, not "metric", which is
a much vaguer collection and includes a lot of
stuff that has been thrown out by the BIPM. Dear, dear, dear... ;-)
> You probably won't celebrate mole day either then....
An evil thought that comes to mind is the possibility of asking the
organisers of Mole Day what they want to do about Kilogram-mole Day,
which is 3 days later... <eg> I was rather surprised to find that the
gram-mole is still the basic SI unit (according to BIPM); I would have
expected the kilogram-mole to become the new standard since it fits
better with the kilogram being the basic unit of mass. And there's a problem:
we need a new name for the kilogram; it's crazy to have a basic

unit include a multiplier as part of its name. A kilogram is a thousand
grams, fine, but these days a gram is defined as 1/1000 of a kilogram --

so it's like describing the number 1 as "1000 thousandths". Mad -- but
not as mad as some Imperial/"US customary".units... <g>

Phil

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:08:28PM +0000, Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
you still can't appreciate that the rest of the world uses *SI*
> units, not "metric", which is a much vaguer collection

"Metric system" just means "a system of measurement". Like Microsoft's "SQL
Server", the people bringing in the new product used a name that meant the
whole class of products, to try to make people use it by accident...

E