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Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

  • 1.  Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 09:12

    You might want to alert the math teachers you know that this year the calendar will make its closest approach to π =

    3.141592654

     

     

    on and on

    ...

     

    Sunday is 3/14/15.  The next time this will happen is March 14, 2115 which is again 3/14/15 but no sooner.

    100 years.

    I read the email ettique and while this might come close to trivia it is still worth noticing.

     Greg



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  • 2.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 09:17
    Just as a note, 3/14 is Saturday, not Sunday. I don't want everyone avoiding crusty baked goods on Saturday and holding off!

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  • 3.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 11:04

    Wouldn't the next year's date 3/14/16 be a closer approximation?

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    Nagaraj Neerchal
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  • 4.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 11:08

    Actually, 3/14/15 at 9:26 and 54 seconds



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    Wouldn't the next year's date 3/14/16 be a closer approximation?

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    UMBC
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  • 5.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 11:18
    Alternatively, if you parse it as 0.92653... of the day 2015-03-14, it's at 22:14:12.7 (i.e., about quarter after 10 that night).

    >>Kathy

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  • 6.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 11:30
    Only statisticians or mathematicians could have this much fun with pi.  ;-)

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  • 7.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 11:36

    Yes, but do our counterparts in the rest of the world have as much fun?  They use the date/month/year system so they would have to wait for  31.4.15 which is April 31 - - -  whoops.  That would be a very long wait indeed.   
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  • 8.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 11:32
    Indeed ;-)

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    Professor and Chair
    UMBC
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  • 9.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 11:40
    Note that this approach is geographically limited to America -- almost like a solar eclipse (which is coming up, too, on March 20). For the rest of the world that used dd-mm-yy notation, pi day would be 3/1/41 or 3/1/42, i.e., January 3 of 2041 or 2042, depending on whether you are willing to round or truncate your pi. That's some quarter century to go. Another possible choice of the divider, 31/4, is April 31, which does not exist even in the weirdest and the leapest of all possible years of a calendar. Of course if one is willing to consider rational approximations to pi, then the International Pi day could be July 22 (22/7), although that is a far less obvious choice than the American 3/14.

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  • 10.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 11:59
    Don't leave out the Ethiopian or Mayan calendars (et al.)!  There should be plenty of pi days without waiting too long. 

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  • 11.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 12:02
    Not to be a killjoy, and perhaps this has already been mentioned in a post and I missed it, but since pi is 3.14159 ... would not 3/14/16 be a closer approach to a true Pi Day?

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    John Dawson
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  • 12.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 12:16
    That means we can have 2 true Pi Days to celebrate!

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  • 13.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 12:21
    no one has mentioned Tau day, yet.  Tau = 2 X Pi.  In the US, 6/28.

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    Director of Statistical Consulting
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  • 14.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 13:54
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    Yes but see this attachment

     

    Greg

     



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    That means we can have 2 true Pi Days to celebrate!

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  • 15.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 14:10
    Will anyone back me up on November 10, 2015 for more pi(e)?

    Clyde Bearss

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    Yes but see this attachment

     

    Greg

     





  • 16.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 13:31
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    This is better than ever.  It uses the first 10 digits tomake PI moment

     

    Saturday at 9:26 AM or PM at 56 seconds.

     

    Okay I will quit and stop filling up the bit bucket.

     

    Greg



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    Not to be a killjoy, and perhaps this has already been mentioned in a post and I missed it, but since pi is 3.14159 ... would not 3/14/16 be a closer approach to a true Pi Day?

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  • 17.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 13:59
    Best laugh out loud in quite a while.  Re-posted to LinkedIn with Credit to J. Dobbins.

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  • 18.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 14:41
    LOL-- a local group that I know is celebrating it with pie on 3/14 at exactly that time....I haven't decided whether it is too funny or too corny....

    Marlene
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  • 19.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 15:19

    I always think of the line from "Forest Gump" ,my hero,

    when he says standing in front of Jenny's grave undertheir tree:

     

    "You know Jenny I think it is both"

     

    So I think it is very funny and  a little corny and maybe

     I have started something that might waste time but it isinteresting if you like math.

     

    Greg



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    LOL-- a local group that I know is celebrating it with pie on 3/14 at exactly that time....I haven't decided whether it is too funny or too corny....

    Marlene
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    Marlene Egger
    Professor
    University of Utah, DFPM
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  • 20.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 16:04
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    I first got interesting in this because my wife teachesmiddle school and so I told her about it and how she could order the t shirtand then the thing just took on a life of its own and engulfed the entire ASAinto a sea of math trivia, I guess.

     

    Greg



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    LOL-- a local group that I know is celebrating it with pie on 3/14 at exactly that time....I haven't decided whether it is too funny or too corny....

    Marlene
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    Marlene Egger
    Professor
    University of Utah, DFPM
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  • 21.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 15:48
    Technically, won't next year come closer, once rounding and error is taken into account :)

    3.14159.. is closer to 3.1416 than 3.1415, so next year (3/14/16) will be closer?


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    Abhijit

    "Teach what you know today, do what you know today, and figure the rest out"



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    Mar 11, 2015 9:12 AM
    J. Dobbins

    You might want to alert the math teachers you know that this year the calendar will make its closest approach to π =

    3.141592654

     

     

    on and on




    ...

     

    Sunday is 3/14/15.  The next time this will happen is March 14, 2115 which is again 3/14/15 but no sooner.

    100 years.

    I read the email ettique and while this might come close to trivia it is still worth noticing.

     Greg



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    ------Original Message------

    You might want to alert the math teachers you know that this year the calendar will make its closest approach to π =

    3.141592654

     

     

    on and on

    ...

     

    Sunday is 3/14/15.  The next time this will happen is March 14, 2115 which is again 3/14/15 but no sooner.

    100 years.

    I read the email ettique and while this might come close to trivia it is still worth noticing.

     Greg



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  • 22.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 16:01
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    Well, I think you are right but there is the other way oflooking at it.  See attachment.

     

    Greg



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    Technically, won't next year come closer, once rounding and error is taken into account :)

    3.14159.. is closer to 3.1416 than 3.1415, so next year (3/14/16) will be closer?


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    Abhijit

    "Teach what you know today, do what you know today, and figure the rest out"



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    You might want to alert the math teachers you know that this year the calendar will make its closest approach to π =

    3.141592654

     

     

    on and on




    ...

     

    Sunday is 3/14/15.  The next time this will happen is March 14, 2115 which is again 3/14/15 but no sooner.

    100 years.

    I read the email ettique and while this might come close to trivia it is still worth noticing.

     Greg



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  • 23.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-11-2015 16:05
    Celebrate at 3/14/15 at 9:26:535... (twice on that day) if the hr:mm:ss will count

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  • 24.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-14-2015 16:10
    If anyone is upset that pi day will soon be over, e-day is just around the corner: February 7, 2018 or 2/7/18.
     
    And if e-day seems like too long a wait, don't despair D-Day is June 6th.
     


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    Celebrate at 3/14/15 at 9:26:535... (twice on that day) if the hr:mm:ss will count

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  • 25.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-16-2015 14:38
    How about phi day 1/6/18?  Its square, 2/6/18, is the day before e-day but we missed its inverse, 06/18/03.




  • 26.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-16-2015 17:42
    I have two say to things:

    1.  When God made the universe "pi" and "e" were his two favorite numbers and he sort of wove them into the way we find to explain many complicated things;
    2. If you are agnostic or athesist then fine I would just say that out of the random events or whatever two very interesting numbers showed up.

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  • 27.  RE: Calendar makes closest approach to pi in 100 years

    Posted 03-16-2015 17:46

    Also I have to say my grammar is flaky



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    I have two say to things:

    1.  When God made the universe "pi" and "e" were his two favorite numbers and he sort of wove them into the way we find to explain many complicated things;
    2. If you are agnostic or athesist then fine I would just say that out of the random events or whatever two very interesting numbers showed up.

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    J. Dobbins
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