What kind of dessert do you celebrate with on Pi Day?

[BurtWorm]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7296224.stm

With just a string and a ruler you can quickly measure that pi must be just over three-and-an-eighth (3.125). With more precise measurements, you may be able to narrow it down to 3.14.

However, if you ask a typical maths nerd, you'll get an earful of pi - 3.14159265 and so on. A surprising number of students have memorised 50 or even 100 digits after the decimal point.

The rough ratio of pi 3.14 gives us the date for Pi Day. March 14, or 3/14 in American dating style, makes sense for a celebration of this famous constant.

Coincidentally, Pi Day is also the birthday of Albert Einstein, who no doubt knew more than a little about pi. Pi Day celebrants, usually children with an enthusiastic teacher and a varying degree of personal interest in the subject, learn about pi, circles, and, if they're lucky, eat baked pies of various sorts.

[ClassWarrior]

1. I don't know, but I'm going to listen to Cake.

B-)

NGU.

[Dhalgren]

6. I've been listening to Vanilla Fudge all morning!

:hippie:

[LisaM]

2. Why does it have to be a dessert?

Can't it be a quiche?

Or a pizza pi?

[JackRiddler]

20. Just had 1/8 * 3.1415 of the diameter of a hawaiian pizza

(ham & pineapple, yum).

[Dhalgren]

3. Flan, of course...

[niyad]

4. chocolate, of course

[displacedtexan]

5. Apple, of course! Here, have some!

[Xithras]

7. Moon Pi's of course.

They're easy to make too. Just take a wheel of green cheese and divide its circumference by its diameter :)

[Taverner]

8. I think someone should try to make a cake with the biblical Pi

That is, 3

1 Kings 7:23

[underpants]

9. I try to spend the day looking for nude pictures of Annie Liebowitz on the internet

but then again it IS Friday

:shrug:

[BurtWorm]

14. .

:spray:

[housewolf]

10. Well, Pie, of course!

Whatever type you like, baked or not.

Interesting article - thanks for posting.

[C_U_L8R]

11. what? No Pie?

mmmmm Pie

[Taverner]

12. I love that flash animation on "more pie"

I can't find it for some reason

[Buzz Clik]

13. What a coincidence! This is my Gamma's birthday.

She's lives in a brand nu rho house down on the delta. She loves fish, so I'm getting her a beta. For a small phi, I'm getting her a purebred with papers. She used to keep goldfish, but her kitty eta bunch of them. Gamma was not happy, not one iota, but all she could do was psi, "Cats will be cats."

That's all the birthday news for now, from alpha to omega. Tau tau for now!

[Desertrose]

15. I just hang out on my favorite PI website.

;)

[BurtWorm]

17. .

:spray:

[mitchum]

16. I'm actually taking a strawberry pie to a Pi Day party this evening...

I was an English major. What the fuck do I know about pi?
Like Talking Barbie said, "Math is hard"

[AlCzervik]

18. It's PI day at my daughter's school, everyone did something, read a book about PI

or made a PI.

[BurtWorm]

21. Wouldn't it be great if someone hired skywriters to make a giant

pi in the sky?

:patriot:

[AlCzervik]

23. that would be pretty spiffy indeed Burt!

[woodsprite]

22. My daughter's school used to serve "Apple Pi Ala'mode" in her Math class. n/t

[AlCzervik]

25. Thats's great!

[GoneOffShore]

19. It's going to be apple.

[LisaM]

24. Apple pi without the cheese

Is like a kiss without the squeeze!


That's what we say at our house; we also serve apple pie with sharp cheddar cheese. Delicious.

[northzax]

26. PI day?

no, it's not pie day. today is THIS DAY (NSFW, REALLY NSFW)

[BurtWorm]

27. I hope that's not what my daughter's celebrating in school today.

She's a vegetarian.

:o

[Manifestor_of_Light]

28. Guess what they're doing at Rice University tonight?

Tonight, for one night only, they are presenting:

CALCULUS, THE MUSICAL.


Really. Says so on my Spring 08 Rice Arts Calendar.