Here are some great quotes that are related to Pi. Some of them are brought back from last year's discussions. Feel free to share your own insightful or witty Pi sayings.
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Here are some great quotes that are related to Pi. Some of them are brought back from last year's discussions. Feel free to share your own insightful or witty Pi sayings.
Pi is like the most awesome number ever and forever will be no matter what! It is irrational and irrantional starts with an i and intelligent and intersting also start with i!
Ah. This place makes me so happy. My last name is Pi.
I’ve got Pi tatooed on my right hip. How’s that for being a little “too hip” and obsessed with Pi? Remember, without order, there is only chaos…
NikFromNYC (comment #6) wondered:
“And why are the INFINITE number of normal numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6…) OBVIOUSLY larger in number than the also INFINITE number of prime numbers (1,3,5,7,13,17…)? So one infinity is larger than the other!”
These two infinite sets are exactly equal in size (here, ‘cardinality’ is the preferred term, rather than ’size’). It may not seem obvious, but it is nonetheless true.
The primes are infinite in number, as proved by Euclid. So, start numbering them:
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29…
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10…
Since each prime can be associated with one of the natural numbers, the set of primes is therefore just as large as the set of natural numbers.
Additionally, the set of even numbers is the same size as the set of odd numbers, and each of these is the same size as the full set of natural numbers!
As before:
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20…
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10…
and
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19…
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10…
So, you could subtract an infinite set (say, the odd numbers) from the infinite set of natural numbers and leave an infinite set that is *exactly* the same size. Moreover, you can subtract an *infinite* number of equally infinite sets–all the multiples of the primes, not including the primes themselves–and still have an equally infinite set left over (the primes).
When Georg Cantor expounded these and other properties of infinite sets, other mathematicians violently rejected the ideas as nonsensical. Cantor was right, however, and eventually his ideas were accepted.
if asked i would say that pi is pretty adequate in its coolness n stuff
Half of the code didn’t make it in my previous comment. This link should work better:
http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/O/Obfuscated-C-Contest.html
~Cool Palindrome~
I PREFER PI.
Pi day is at 3/14 and pi moment is at 1:59 and 26 seconds on Pi day!
I suggest that Computer & Keyboard manufacturers must add a key to print Pi. It can be on the ‘P’ and ‘I’ keys, via alt or other keys.
Type e ^ ( sqrt(-1) * pi ) + 1 into Google.
Oh it equals zero. How come a number like pi, that never ends, along with an impossible number like the square root of negative one, multiplied together, cancel each other out?
So circles can never be real lest they keep adding digits forever, meaning never, or use square roots that make most calculators crash.
And why are the INFINITE number of normal numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6…) OBVIOUSLY larger in number than the also INFINITE number of prime numbers (1,3,5,7,13,17…)? So one infinity is large than the other!
Is there a pattern in the digits of pi, or in the series of prime numbers, or in the parents we choose? Yes. What is that pattern? Take your choice.
If your wearing a shirt, tie, sweatshirt, or anything with pi on it.
Oh, I’m such a slob. I’ve got pi on my shirt.
Yo Kyle, it was Simon Singh in “Fermat’s Last Theorem.”
“Although knowing pi to a mere 39 decimal places is sufficient to calculate the circumference of the universe accurate to the radius of a hydrogen atom, this has not prevented computer scientists from calculating pi to as many decimal places as possible.”
Depending on your estimation of the diameter of the universe, taking into account background radiation as an indicator of age and dark matter as an indicator of volume, there is another line of reasoning that puts the figure and more like 63 to 67 places.
Kanada’s work is more than adequate, and the 1,000,000 places available on this site are quite sufficient.
happy
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993
day!
“If pi r squared, what shape are cakes?” -My 6th to 8th grade math teacher
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important
Pi > cake.
Pi r square? Pi r not square. Cornbread r square. Pi r round.
“Some people say Pi R squared, but i know Pi R round.”
Pi is like learning, it never ends.
ODE TO PI
One wonders why mathematicians would try
To fathom in full all the mysteries of pi.
Some of them look for uses statistical,
Others will look for significance mystical.
These people to me seem somewhat like Steve Urkel,
Getting turned on by a ratio of parts of a circle.
Their behavior seems much like the number itself,
To be put away on the irrational shelf.
I see no need to be up to such tricks,
When I can just use three-point-one-four-one-six.
Here’s a better one:
Pi to i: Stop being so complex!
i to Pi: When you stop being so irrational!
Our 5th grade pi day was very tasty. We read a book called Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi. Then we read about the history of pi. We sang some pi songs. Finally, we ate some delicious oreo cookie pie.
Pi from here
Pi to there
Pi is everywhere
When you bake a home made pie you’re supposed to put slits in the top for steam to vent through. I always mark the “pi” symbol in the top - my signature mark … computer scientist meets soccer mom.
π - rates
GO NOTES (from the movie: Pi)
The ancient Japanese considered the go board a microcosm of the universe.
Although when it’s empty it appears to be simple and ordered. The possibilities of game play are endless. They say no two games have ever been alike, just like snowflakes. So, the go board actually represents an extremely complex and chaotic universe. But as the go game progresses the possibilities become smaller and smaller and the board takes on order. Soon, all the games are predictable. So maybe though we’re not sophisticated enough to be aware of it, there is a pattern, an order underlying every go game. But as soon as scientific rigor is discarded there’s no longer math but numerology. When the mind becomes obsessed with anything, everything else will be filtered out and find that thing everywhere (and here lies the danger of paranoia and madness).
Italics mine, HB.
“Friday is Pi day”.
Luck for us, Pi day the 13th will never happen:-)
Not a quote, but a great cartoon on Toothpaste for Dinner:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/031208/how-many-digits-of-pi-do-you-know.gif
If in to pi read the book Contact. The whole book is about pi from the beginning to the end.
Enjoy
“This above all numbers is sublime; 3.14159″
Ellis Sanders.
Pi day is the best day!!!!!!
“There’s a beauty to pi that keeps us looking at it… The digits of pi are extremely random. They really have no pattern, and in mathematics that’s really the same as saying they have every pattern.” - Peter Borwein, 1996
“Knowing 30 digits of pi allows you to calculate the circumference of the “horizon” [of the universe] with accuracy of a millimeter.” - Unknown
A limerick that appeared in Omni Magazine about 20 years ago:
“If, in a circle, a line
Hits the center, and runs spine to spine,
And the lines length is D
The circumference will be
D times 3.14159.”
If we are to be technical, neither of the Pi raps are right…
“Three to the one point four, yo!” would be 3^(1.4) which equals approximately 4.65554
“Three to the point one four, yo!” would be 3^(0.14) which equals approximately 1.16626
Sorry! :o)
In seven years from today, March 14, 2015, it will be a special Pi day. It will be 3/14/15, or 3.1415 ;-)
The quote, on the home page, says pie never repeats itself. Yet, at the top of the page, places 25 and 26 repeat the numeral 3.
Is this a misprint, an improper calculation, or is the quote incorrect?
[Editor’s response: Good point, Ed. We’re not implying that Pi never has any consecutive digits, but that there is no predictable pattern in the sequence of numbers that repeats.]
Pi R not square
Pi R round
(Unknown)
Around and around and around you go
And where it stops, well nobody knows.
You’ve got your 3.14159
But try to finish it up, and it will blow your mind.
You keep dividing and dividing, but it never repeats.
You only get a slice, and it’s the kind you can’t eat.
Cause the Circle of Life has got a fixed Diameter.
And the distance around it should be easy to infer.
But the relationship that lies between the two.
Is the number that gives large computers something to do.
Cause the journey through the digits is a path without end.
So you have to approximate to do the math, my friend.
Pi is the number that I’m talking about.
It’s the number with the digits that never run out.
Never run out. Never run out. Never run out……
“This above all numbers is sublime; 3.14159″
Ellis Sanders
I actually prefer cake. :)
What is the volume of a cylinder with radius “z” and thickness “a”?
pi z z a
I think the student’s Pi rap should be “Three to the point one four,yo!”. Unless they’re talking about TenPi…
From a student’s Pi rap: “Three to the one point four, yo!”
“I’m like Pi…irrational, but well-rounded.”
Nobel laureate poet Wislawa Szymborska wrote a poem on pi:
http://www.columbia.edu/~zm4/bin/pi/
Nicole,
The joke should be:
Pi to i: “Get real!”
i to Pi: “Be rational!”
e is in the reals…fyi.
pi day is the best day
“If you look at the digits of pie you can usually find your birthday digits somewhere”-unknown
Pi say to e: Get real!
e says to Pi: Get rational!
There is a real neat Pi page on:
http://members.aol.com/loosetooth/pi.html
It has a Pi poetry page which also plays a song.
“There’s a beauty to pi that keeps us looking at it… The digits of pi are extremely random. They really have no pattern, and in mathematics that’s really the same as saying they have every pattern.” - Peter Borwein, 1996
“Knowing 30 digits of pi allows you to calculate the circumference of the “horizon” [of the universe] with accuracy of a millimeter.” - Unknown
A limerick that appeared in Omni Magazine about 20 years ago:
“If, in a circle, a line
Hits the center, and runs spine to spine,
And the lines length is D
The circumference will be
D times 3.14159.”
Submitted by Tom from New Orleans
“What good is your beautiful investigation regarding pi? Why study such problems, since irrational numbers do not exist?” - Leopold Kronecker, 1882
A great palindrome: “I prefer pi.”
Lisa Simpson’s class: “3.14159 are the numbers that make Pi.”