March 14, Pi Day. 3.141 … also, of course, the return of daylight savings time. I regret the lost hour, and the sense of weird jet lag, and it would be great if there were any sun rather than a third day of rain, but still, light in the evening! Life can go on. I’m increasingly an Aztec by religious conviction, I’m afraid, and every winter I fear that the Fifth Age of the world has ended and the sun will return no more. So DST is almost like … an Aztec ritual! The kindler, gentler, non-human-sacrificial New Fire Ceremony.
Update: With the approach of spring, I was temporarily seized with the milk of human kindness (kindler, gentler, non-human-sacrificial …). Oh heck, I’m an Aztec. New Fire Ceremony. You know where this is going. We must get with the program.
Colin says:
YAY
http://keithschofield.com/pi
March 14, 2010, 6:50 pmAndrew says:
We’ll have to throw a big party on March 14, 2015. :-)
March 14, 2010, 6:56 pmSyd Henderson says:
And toss our pies at each other at 9:26 p.m.
March 14, 2010, 6:58 pmcboldt says:
– And toss our pies at each other at 9:26 p.m. –
March 14, 2010, 7:04 pma.m., not p.m. Even greater precision is available by timing the toss to 53 seconds after 9:26 a.m.
Brett Bellmore says:
Yeah, I’ll wait another five years to get excited over it.
March 14, 2010, 7:14 pmJPG says:
“The kindler, gentler, non-human-sacrificial New Fire Ceremony”
I’m sure many of your relatives and friends had a warm felt relief upon reading the last sentence, although you should not be surprised would they hide their cats and dogs from you.
March 14, 2010, 7:22 pmAnonsters says:
The kindler, gentler, non-human-sacrificial New Fire Ceremony.
C’mon, Kenneth Anderson, you’re a conservative. Human sacrifice should be old hat for you. ;)
March 14, 2010, 7:26 pmCDR D says:
Go AZTECS!!
http://tinyurl.com/y9nx7ud
March 14, 2010, 7:31 pmEric Jablow says:
Will there be alcoholic drinks after heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics?
(After the famous pi mnemonic.)
March 14, 2010, 8:13 pmButternut says:
Here is to Jenny, who spent her week celebrating Pi with her students like a good teacher should. She tried all weekend to make me understand the concept but, being dense, I stared at her like a six toed grit…
March 14, 2010, 9:06 pmBABH says:
For pi day, some Deep Magic:
e^(i*pi)=-1
March 14, 2010, 9:32 pmSyd Henderson says:
cboldt says:
– And toss our pies at each other at 9:26 p.m. –
a.m., not p.m. Even greater precision is available by timing the toss to 53 seconds after 9:26 a.m.
But who wants a party at 9:26 a.m?
March 14, 2010, 10:48 pmJohn Armstrong says:
I think this shirt sums up the feelings of most actual mathematicians and scientists about π.
March 14, 2010, 11:02 pmSteve P. says:
According to Mr. Armstrong’s link I am a dick, but I love my alma mater’s tradition. I believe that year they completed slightly over 16K decimal places.
March 14, 2010, 11:58 pmSarcastro says:
[Always rooted for e, the underdog, myself. When Febuary 71st comes around, I'm gonna paaaartaay!]
March 15, 2010, 12:04 amSteve P. says:
Euler’s number isn’t so much an underdog as an upstart. I mean, π is old on the order of millennia. e isn’t even four hundred years old. You must be a progressive.
March 15, 2010, 12:29 amjoev says:
This.
(long time reader, first time poster — leave it to alma mater pride to bring me out of lurkerdom!)
March 15, 2010, 12:55 amJohn Armstrong says:
Steve, if you’re going to be all formal it’s Dr. Armstrong.
March 15, 2010, 2:23 amrbj says:
“The kindler, gentler, non-human-sacrificial New Fire Ceremony.”
This is why I no longer practice the Aztec religion. Liberals have taken over and ruined. There’s nothing like a good old fashioned ripping out the heart and offering it to the gods.
March 15, 2010, 1:01 pmMichael B says:
Recently read where some idiot savant has memorized pi out to several tens of thousands of decimal digits.
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March 15, 2010, 7:54 pmMikeT says:
I like the t-shirt John, these kind of things have always annoyed me too for some reason.
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