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pi,

:)

not Pie as in apple, cherry or prune whip danish,

but PI,

:)

3.1415926535

:)

http://www.piday.org/

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/12/pi.day.math/?hpt=Mid

Mathematicians know that pi is irrational -- it cannot be represented as one number divided by another -- and transcendental, meaning it is not algebraic. That means, theoretically, that its digits will continue on indefinitely without ending in repetition -- in other words, the digits won't suddenly continue infinitely as 5s after 3 trillion digits (Pi's digits were calculated out to a record 2.7 trillion places in December by French computer scientist Fabrice Bellard).

That also means, mathematicians theorize, that any string of numbers you can imagine is somewhere in pi -- for instance, look for your birthday. Coincidentally, "360," the number of degrees in a circle, occurs at digits 358 to 360.

On the other hand, the true "randomness" of pi's digits has never been proven, which is frustrating, said David Bailey, a technologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who is still working on this question.
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Happy Pi Day, Dave. Interesting link
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Well here is Pi in your face 😀D:D

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pi,
Dave (imported) wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:18 am :)

not Pie as in apple, cherry or prune whip danish,

but PI,

:)

3.1415926535

:)

http://www.piday.org/

No wonder Spock used PI to drive the demon out of the Enterprise's computer.
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Did it have whipped cream?

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Another transcendental number is e, which is in its own way much more interesting than pi; there are several different algorithms that generate pi, but only one that generates e, which is the base of natural logorithms and the number that explains the spirals in nautilus shells among other things.
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