Wednesday Is Pi Day 282
mrbluze points us to an AP writeup on the upcoming Pi Day — 3-14 (which some will observe at 1:59 pm). The article notes: "[T]he world record [for reciting the number Pi] belongs to Chao Lu, a Chinese chemistry student, who rattled off 67,890 digits over 24 hours in 2005. It took 26 video tapes to submit to Guinness," and mentions in passing a Japanese mental health counselor who last fall recited 100,000 digits, but did not choose to submit proof to the record book.
To Celebrate.... (Score:3, Insightful)
US Centric Alert! (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:I live in Europe (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I live in Europe (Score:3, Insightful)
Mmm my first rational thought of 2002... yipee!
Tom
Re:I live in Europe (Score:2, Insightful)
Trust Americans to associate everything in life with sport.
*ducks*
Re:Wrong Day (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I live in Europe (Score:3, Insightful)
...or listing domain names as science.slashdot.org instead of the logical order org.slashdot.science.
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Re:Einstein's birthday... (Score:3, Insightful)
Because we can?
Because he never remembers my birthday?
Because we would have had to know it in the first place to be able to remeber it?
Re:I live in Europe (Score:3, Insightful)
Many US government forms in fact use the DD-MM-YYYY format. If you're flying into the US and are filling out immigration-related forms and hear a muttered curse word followed by the sound of a pen crossing out some numbers at the bottom and rewriting, realize that the person next to you is probably an American who wasn't expecting to have the DD/MM format sprung on them!
Re:I live in Europe (Score:3, Insightful)
We can join in, we just need to redefine Pi as 1.43
Well, if you'd be willing to take King George off our hands, he's become quite good at redefining science, so I'm sure he could make that change for you.