Pi Day

[John Gray]

NASA has decreed that today, March 14^th, is Pi Day.
They do this on the rather flimsy basis that March 14 could, with a bit of stretching, be expressed as 3.14.
Of course, as any fule kno*, the correct Pi Day is 31^st April: 31.4 !

* see Nigel Molesworth, passim

[HansV]

Why not the 22nd of July, i.e. 22/7 ?

[John Gray]

Perhaps put this very sensible suggestion to NASA?

[stuck]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index. ... roximation

[StuartR]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index. ... roximation

[ChrisGreaves]

Of course, as any fule kno*, the correct Pi Day is 31^st April: 31.4 !

Why aren't we celebrating "Alonso Álvarez de Pineda day"?
If nothing else, that ought to keep BobH fuled fueled!
Cheers, Chris

[Leif]

Why aren't we celebrating "Alonso Álvarez de Pineda day"?
If nothing else, that ought to keep BobH fuled fueled!
Cheers, Chris

I'll see your Alonso Álvarez de Pineda and raise you one Albert Einstein.

[ChrisGreaves]

I'll see your Alonso Álvarez de Pineda and raise you one Albert Einstein.

OK Leif. I give in
Where do you find 159 in Albert Einstein (apart from a tenuous rhyme with the last syllable?)
Chris

[GeoffW]

Is the ratio of the sun's circumference to its diameter pi in the sky?

[BobH]

groan