Happy Pi Day!
- Thread starter LakeShark
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I know every digit of Pi to 100 sig. figs. I just don't get them in the right order.
"And now I drew a symbol whose meaning Dwayne had known for a few years in school, a meaning which had since eluded him. The symbol would have looked like the end of a table in a prison dining hall to Wayne. It represented the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. This ratio could also be expressed as a number, and even as Dwayne and Wayne and Karabekian and Beatrice Keedsler and all the rest of us went about our business, Earthling scientists were monotonously radioing that number into outer space. The idea was to show other inhabited planets, in case they were listening, how intelligent we were. We had tortured circles until they coughed up this symbol of their secret lives:"
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Breakfast Of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Breakfast Of Champions
We had a pilot in our C-130 reserve unit that was to say the least... a bit eccentric. He was a physics graduate student at UT with a long commute to the AFB in San Antonio for flight training. His ride was a 60's VW Beetle, the kind that had the manual flippers that signaled turns. He had built a book holder on the steering wheel so he could read SiFi novels during his commute. The eccentric part is when he would pull an origami looking piece of paper out of his wallet and let it open all the way to the floor. It contained Pi to thousands of digits. As he recited Pi, our job was check his accuracy. We gave up long before he did.
Bastards...here's how we spent Pi day. The only thing sailing was the snow out of the blowers' chute at an arc that can be calculated if you had a clue about the exiting velocity and divide by Pi. Regardless, I had a chance to break in the new foulies...they are awesome. Friggin' Nor'Easters.
We wonder that too... until we sail on Seneca Lake in July... the sunrise, the sunset, the clear, clean, fresh water in the beautiful afternoon sun...
We realize we are blessed.
I want to sail on Seneca Lake!!!! (Imagine that in all caps.) I've been to Wagner Winery and would have been thrown out if @Meriachee and @Ralph Johnstone would have been there. Dang it's a beautiful lake!
For security reasons, I have chosen the last 4 digits of Pi as my PIN.
I used to live in Chicago, Minneapolis and Grinnel Iowa... so I know snow.... and I admit I loved cross country ski back packing and snow mobiles but as I get older, the cold makes my bones hurt.
