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I Celebrate Pi Day

[b][c=#BF0080]Happy birthday π ! [/c] [/b]

Today (3/14) is π day.

(1) π is equal to the ratio of the circumference of a circle and its diameter.

(2) π is a [i]transcendental[/i] number. Briefly, this means that [i]we do not know its value[/i], and we never will, haha. π, you’ll always be a mystery.

(3) π is (most likely) a [i]normal[/i] number: the distribution probability of digits within π is random. If we assign a [i]pair of consecutive digits[/i] to a character (such as "65"="A", cf. ASCII code table) we will find the contents of each book that has ever been written (even bad books, those behind the front row on our shelves) somewhere along the digits of π, and also any book that has [i]not[/i] been written, and all variations thereof. There will be a version of Hamlet where Ophelia is called Helen.

(4) The value of π is more fundamental than the physical constants. If the universe did not exist, the physical constants would loose their meaning, but π would remain the same, indicating that [i]spirit is more fundamental than matter.[/i] We, as humans, can change a lot of things, but we can’t change π. Even God cannot change π, sorry Sir, You may have created the world but You did not create π. It’s always been there. And you don't know the value of π either.

(5) π is considered to be one of the five [i]fundamental[/i] numbers: i, e, π, 1, and 0. These numbers appear in the famous equation e^(i*π) + 1 = 0 (Gauss? Euler? Don’t remember.)

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[c=#BF0080]Happy birthday π!
You’re one of a kind, and we are big fans!

[b]We love you π ![/b][/c]

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PS: As user “SleepWalker” has pointed out, Prof Albert Einstein was born on π day. Moreover, “samueltyler2” wrote that Prof Stephen Hawking died on π day. Prof Einstein and Prof Hawking have contributed so much to our understanding of the physical world. What an amazing coincidence.–
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Ozdharma · 61-69, M
Like the golden mean
helenS · 36-40, F
@Ozdharma My pocket calculator (an old HP 15C, when good things were still produced in Corvallis, Oregon, and not in China) has side lengths corresponding to the golden mean (golden section?)
The ratio between its long side and short side is equal to the ratio between the sum of both sides and the long side.
This little machine was made the year I was born, and it's still running on the first set of batteries. Those were the days!
Ozdharma · 61-69, M
@helenS wow that is amazing and I guess was deliberate ... I use to write fortran 4 programs to do maths on a computer on punch cards when I was young and the computer took up the size of a house and there was at least a 3 hour turn around time to get the result ... now it is all in the palm
helenS · 36-40, F
@Ozdharma I sometimes feel like a temporally deplaced person. I listen to UK 70's rock music, I use an archaic obsolete calculator, I use vi as an editor... but I have a MacBook Air, and I program in Perl!
Ozdharma · 61-69, M
@helenS nothing wrong with 70's rock it is ageless
helenS · 36-40, F
@Ozdharma Yes! (Pun intended)