more about Pi day

[Don Shepherd]

Since there are a number of members of this forum who are interested in Pi and calculating digits of Pi, here is an offer from Scientific American that may be interesting to some. I have no affiliation with Scientific American (other than being a subscriber).

[Dieter]

(03-06-2015 03:22 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  Since there are a number of members of this forum who are interested in Pi and calculating digits of Pi, here is an offer from Scientific American that may be interesting to some.

Quote from that website:

Quote:This year Pi Day is significant because the date, (3-14-15) hour, (9 hr) minute (26 min) and second (5 sec) will reflect the first 9 digits of Pi (3.14159265)!

Only nine digits? Why is it 5 seconds instead of 53 or 54? This would reflect the first 10 digits of Pi. Or many more: just think of 9:26 and 53,589793... seconds. ;-)

Dieter

[John Galt]

(03-06-2015 11:14 PM)Dieter Wrote:  Only nine digits? Why is it 5 seconds instead of 53 or 54?

I was thinking the same. How terribly imprecise. Might as well wait for July 22.

Perhaps Scientific American was using a TI?

Edit: Wikipedia agrees with you:

Quote:A sequential time will occur on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53 following the sequence of pi.

[Dave Britten]

I too immediately thought the same thing. We are clearly a bunch of nerds.