3,141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820

[ErikTheNorwegian]

Today

[Rerouter]

This returned both google results for the 40000th places of pi calced and the 1 Million places for pi calced, then again i suppose as your string of numbers get longer eventually significantly sized strings of numbers will have to be repeated

[apelly]

One of Dave's recent tweets comes to mind

[electronics man]

Happy pi day everyone

[TMM]

Happy 14.3 day? Silly Americans :p

Happy Pi Month from Australia.

[GK]

Scientists in Carl Sagan’s novel Contact are able to unravel enough of pi to find hidden messages from the creators of the human race, allowing humans to access deeper levels of universal awareness.

Can't remember that bit from the movie, but I was probably tuned out of the plot before then. That film was cringe worthy from beginning to end and didn't make me want to seek out the novel. Ditto for Hitchhikers guide to a galaxy - what a crap film that was.

[TerraHertz]

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/03/13/einstein-and-pi/


Also Einstein's birthday.

The 22/7 is a more accurate Pi day.

[ajb]

I didn't even realize the occasion until our administrator came around to ask everyone their pie flavor preference.  We'll be celebrating with pies from the local Amish market later  .

[Dongulus]

Happy 14.3 day? Silly Americans :p

Happy Pi Month from Australia.

Funny that so far almost exclusively members without American flags in their profile have commented about it.

[mos6502]

Happy pi day!

[Neilm]

So why, why can't I calculate pi
I just want to see the numbers 3.1415

Would I be considered boring if I point out that rounding pi to 4 DPs is 3.1416?

[TerraHertz]

Funny that so far almost exclusively members without American flags in their profile have commented about it.

Maybe something to do with this kind of thinking:
  http://beta.slashdot.org/story/96996
  111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi

Attempting to establish pi as the ratio 'five-fourths to four' or 3.2.  Genius!
Even better, from a tongue-in-cheek reader-comment:
  "Blasphemy! Thats because pi to 4 decimals is 666/212 so therefore anything close real pi is of course the devils work."

[VK3DRB]

50 fun fact about pi...
A Givenchy men’s cologne named Pi is marketed as highlighting the sexual appeal of intelligent and visionary men.

They screwed up. Woman in general are not attracted to intelligence. If they had called it "Entrepreneur", women would be attracted. If they called it "Engineer" it would be sold as a repellent.

As for pi, Euler's number e is just as interesting and fascinating.

[linux-works]

today, at trader joes (grocery store that has a 'demo' section where they give samples of the featured item of the day) they were giving out samples of apple or berry pie

[GK]

Give the books a try, both books are difficult to make into film, Contact has 7,2 on IMB, and 641 on filmmakers, not bad. ?

Meh. Some might consider an author who fantasizes about being a guided product of a higher intelligence religious.
 

[arekm]

[linux-works]

Give the books a try, both books are difficult to make into film, Contact has 7,2 on IMB, and 641 on filmmakers, not bad. ?

Meh. Some might consider an author who fantasizes about being a guided product of a higher intelligence religious.
 

spiritual, maybe.  at best.

religious?  not even close.  no where did carl talk about other non-earth species being our 'creators'.  that would be the key for being a religion.  an all powerful deity that creates you.  if you don't have that, you don't have a religion.  you also typically have a 'please dont hurt or or smash us into little bits' pleading with the super entity in religion.  again, Contact had none of that.

[free_electron]

This is what i call pi !


anything else is just theoretical nonsense

[GK]

Give the books a try, both books are difficult to make into film, Contact has 7,2 on IMB, and 641 on filmmakers, not bad. ?

Meh. Some might consider an author who fantasizes about being a guided product of a higher intelligence religious.
 

spiritual, maybe.  at best.

religious?  not even close.  no where did carl talk about other non-earth species being our 'creators'.  that would be the key for being a religion.  an all powerful deity that creates you.  if you don't have that, you don't have a religion.  you also typically have a 'please dont hurt or or smash us into little bits' pleading with the super entity in religion.  again, Contact had none of that.

LOL. So Buddhism isn't a religion then?
 

[linux-works]

I'm not sure its a religion; quite a lot of people think its a philosophy.  I'm no expert but: does it have a deity?  my understanding is that its not deity-based.

http://buddhism.about.com/od/basicbuddhistteachings/a/philosophy.htm

I would not call it a religion.

[IanB]

Getting a bit off topic here I guess, but religion is basically a set of taught beliefs you follow because they are right, where right is determined by things written down, or things conveyed by people that came before. In a religion you cannot choose your own definition of right, unless you found your own religion. If you follow an existing religion you must accept what you are taught. Nothing anywhere says that religion has to have a deity, except that in theistic religions the deity is thought to be the original source of what is taught.

[linux-works]

Getting a bit off topic here I guess, but religion is basically a set of taught beliefs you follow because they are right, where right is determined by things written down, or things conveyed by people that came before.

no mention of a 'god' there?  this does not sound like an accurate or complete defintion.

how does this differ from a philosophy, then?  I can have a 'way of life' I think is correct and several others can all agree, but if there is no 'god' then there is NO religion here.

In a religion you cannot choose your own definition of right, unless you found your own religion.

and that happens enough, and so I don't see the utility in this definition.  there are lots of different forks or branches of christianity, for example, and they often have very different (and locally assigned) views of what is 'right'.

If you follow an existing religion you must accept what you are taught.

I think you are too engrossed in what christianity is.  in judaism, for example, its quite ok to argue (based on your view of talmud or torah, for example) and no one can contradict you!  there is no notion of pope or higher authority.  even a rabii is mostly an 'advisor' and not an absolute.  everything is challengable.

other religions also don't force you to swallow things line by line from a central authority.

Nothing anywhere says that religion has to have a deity, except that in theistic religions the deity is thought to be the original source of what is taught.

the commonly held definition DOES include a god and its essential for what makes the diff between a way of life and a religion.  there are a few ways to define what 'religion' is but the most common that I've heard is that it has to include the notion of a god or gods.

[IanB]

I think you are too engrossed in what christianity is

Where did I mention Christianity? The fact that you bring it up, unprompted, means that Christianity is in your mind, not mine.

[GK]

quite a lot of people think its a philosophy.  I'm no expert but: does it have a deity?  my understanding is that its not deity-based

And a lot of people think that angels exist, so what? It's mostly the religious (competitively non-Buddhist) who insist that it isn't a religion. Where is the obvious delineation between a philosophy and religion and since when does merely a "philosophy" necessarily involve the communal and political aspect, the mysticism and all of the spiritualist drivel that Buddhism has entirely in common with virtually every other organized religion? Buddhism is a non-theistic religion.

Though neither a Buddhist nor Christian, Carl Sagan was definitely a religious man. And don't retort again with some crap about him possibly being merely "spiritual"; as if that in reality is actually something different.
 



 


     

[linux-works]

"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity." -Carl Sagan

sorry, dude; that does not sound like a person who is either religious OR believes in any conventional notion of god.

as much as you may want him to believe in god, he was not a god believer.  he was not religious, either.  sorry.