You missed Pi Day, didn’t you? (Unless you’re a blogger, then you probably posted something about it to prove your mastery of arcane cultural detritus. As if anyone can really master detritus.) Of course, anyone can put up a post on March 14 and dedicate it to pi, but only the most committed can provide a computational machine that will search 1.2 million digits or so on the right side of the decimal to find where in that string your birthday appears.
For the record, I’m in the top ten percent, at position 114,290 (and the sum of those digits is 17, and I don’t think I have to tell you what that signifies).
Tip o’the green eyeshade to Soccer Dad (who also notes the formation of a new ocean in Africa), by way of White Pebble (who’s in a dither [tizzy? tither?] about the new ocean, but apparently didn’t notice the ode to pi)
an ocean of words… an ocean of water… Hey, I get confused!
I’d tell you more about pi, but you’d banish me from your blogroll before I got near to being done! *sniff* *pout*
C’mon Eric there are plenty of other useful things about math. How’d you like me to write you a program for determining a whole host of pythagorean triples.
Thanks for the link.
Patti, I can’t get enough of hearing you talk about pi. In fact, I wish you’d talk about pi 3.14 times as often as before.
And David, where were you last week when I was desperately searching for a whole host of pythagorean triples? Mathematicians are like cops; they’re never around when you need one. 😉
HA! … I’m 7,555 … Nyah!
Looking back …. waaaaaaaaay back, I can see you, I think, in the distance.
🙂
Yeah, Jeff, but look at the sum of your placement digits: 22. I don’t have to tell you what that means, do I? (Poor guy.)
I’M #1705!!! Boy, that’s exciting. And the sum of my digits is ummm, 13. Please tell me what that means. 8-}