Pi Day

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• cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members

  March 2008

  Where'd I put my power drill...

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• Faskalia Wechsellichtzeichenanlage Join Date: 2004-09-12 Member: 31651Members, Constellation

  March 2008

  Just the attempt to write down PI is futile and heresy in one!
  
  BURN THE HERETIC!

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• PvtBones Join Date: 2004-04-25 Member: 28187Members

  March 2008

  would it be considered a coincidence that I just finished reading contact by carl sagan and today is Pi day?
  
  
  
  also can I have a piece of pi?

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• Zaggy NullPointerException The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester

  March 2008

  <a href="http://www.infinitemonkeyproductions.net/wow_forum/portal_and_there_will_be_cake.jpg" target="_blank">Portal pie</a> > 3.14

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• Domining Join Date: 2007-09-27 Member: 62452Members

  March 2008

  654 365 464 + 5 643 821 = 660 009 285 Coincidence? I think not
  74 297 941 + 7 432 897 592 = 7 507 195 533 Coincidence? I think not.
  3 524 236 534 + 6 436 853 456 = 9 961 089 990 Coincidence? I think not.
  435 346 452 + 5 324 897 429 = 5 760 243 881 Coincidence? I think not.
  
  etc..

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• lolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members

  March 2008

  Did you know that if you take the right sequence of pi decimals and convert them to ASCII (it's easier if you convert to binary first), it spells out "im trapped in a universe factory send help"?

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• TychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members

  March 2008

  <!--quoteo(post=1673208:date=Mar 14 2008, 07:36 AM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lolfighter @ Mar 14 2008, 07:36 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1673208"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Did you know that if you take the right sequence of pi decimals and convert them to ASCII (it's easier if you convert to binary first), it spells out "im trapped in a universe factory send help"?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
  I tried that and I just got a bunch of gibberish about the Great Satan and his omnipotence. Maybe I did it wrong.

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• Faskalia Wechsellichtzeichenanlage Join Date: 2004-09-12 Member: 31651Members, Constellation

  March 2008 edited March 2008

  <!--quoteo(post=1673208:date=Mar 14 2008, 01:36 PM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lolfighter @ Mar 14 2008, 01:36 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1673208"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Did you know that if you take the right sequence of pi decimals and convert them to ASCII (it's easier if you convert to binary first), it spells out "im trapped in a universe factory send help"?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
  
  Wohoo,
  Convert the right sequence of pi decimals, convert to binary and then to ascii and you get the bible!
  New and old testament!
  
  See god created the universe and PI is his secret messenger <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
  
  Edit: I just realized that this might be not true, because the number of same decimals in a row IS in fact limited!

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• X_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation

  March 2008

  <center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RaSCByd0UtM"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RaSCByd0UtM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>
  
  Or, the better version:
  
  <center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mfr7xG6smhU"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mfr7xG6smhU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>

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• Gwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation

  March 2008

  All those extra digits are a waste, we should make it exactly 3.

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• Xyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members

  March 2008

  <!--quoteo(post=1673235:date=Mar 14 2008, 01:38 PM:name=Gwahir)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gwahir @ Mar 14 2008, 01:38 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1673235"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->All those extra digits are a waste, we should make it exactly 3.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
  I know man, screw the "universe" and its "constants".

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• TychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members

  March 2008

  That second video was trippy.

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• Faskalia Wechsellichtzeichenanlage Join Date: 2004-09-12 Member: 31651Members, Constellation

  March 2008 edited March 2008

  <!--quoteo(post=1673235:date=Mar 14 2008, 07:38 PM:name=Gwahir)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gwahir @ Mar 14 2008, 07:38 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1673235"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->All those extra digits are a waste, we should make it exactly 3.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
  
  We could, but that would result in every other number being irrational. So it would make our whole mathematics more inaccurate.
  
  Also:
  <a href="http://piequalsthree.ytmnd.com/" target="_blank">http://piequalsthree.ytmnd.com/</a>

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• Gwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation

  March 2008

  still waiting for someone to get the reference.

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• Faskalia Wechsellichtzeichenanlage Join Date: 2004-09-12 Member: 31651Members, Constellation

  March 2008

  <!--quoteo(post=1673240:date=Mar 14 2008, 08:46 PM:name=Gwahir)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gwahir @ Mar 14 2008, 08:46 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1673240"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->still waiting for someone to get the reference.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
  
  You should click my ytmnd link then <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />

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• Gwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation

  March 2008

  I did, and that's not it.

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• TychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members

  March 2008

  <a href="http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.asp" target="_blank">http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.asp</a> ?

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• Gwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation

  March 2008 edited March 2008

  I would call that a prime example of infuriatingly funny.
  
  In any case, most of the statement was the reference, not just the 3 part. It's from <i>Going Postal</i> by Terry Pratchett. Bloody Stupid Johnson decided the number was wasteful and made a wheel in a device with a PI of exactly 3. Of course he had to bend space to do it, so the device started spitting out letters that hadn't been written yet, or were going to be written but the fellow never got around to it, etc.

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• Aldaris Join Date: 2002-03-25 Member: 351Members, Constellation

  March 2008

  I knew that, it's just I didn't see this thread in time <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
  
  Speaking of Pratchett, you know they've made Colour of Magic live action thingy?

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• TychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members

  March 2008

  They made a Hogfather live action thing and a Soul Music animated movie.
  
  And Gwahir, there are plenty of "lol pi is 3" things in popular culture. Expecting us to read your mind and find the Terry Pratchett one is a little unreasonable.

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• Gwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation

  March 2008 edited March 2008

  just happens it's the only one I've run into.
  
  But the wasted digits part was what made it Pratchett.

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• Drfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members

  March 2008

  mazda pi
  
  <img src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_14jRLbqf59c/Rl0JbttwWfI/AAAAAAAAAbs/m-Cy9LZAW4k/s400/pi%20314.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

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