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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Pi Day isn't just about showing off how many numbers you have memorized " restaurants from Burger King to California Pizza Kitchen are offering deals and discounts on Thursday, March 14th.

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Pie day is just a fake holiday created by math companies to sell more math.

#1 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-03-14 12:32 PM | Reply

There was a pizza joint in Long Beach called "Pizza Pi". Always thought that was pretty clever. Decent pizza, too.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-14 01:06 PM | Reply

Speaking of pizza, there's a lot of Pizza parlors around the country with 'Pi Day' specials including Pizza Hut, Round Table Pizza, Papa Murphy's as well as a few others.

OCU

#3 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-03-14 01:19 PM | Reply

Also speaking of 'Pi', here's a video where a math instructor in London, and his students, calculated, by hand, 'Pi' to a record number of digits, 528, a record which had stood since 1870:

www.youtube.com

OCU

#4 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-03-14 01:31 PM | Reply

Me oh my.

I do love Pi!!

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-14 01:45 PM | Reply

#5

So does Hillary.

#6 | Posted by HanoverFist at 2024-03-14 03:29 PM | Reply

The Pie song (from the movie Michael)

Pie
Pie
Me oh my
Nothing tastes sweet, wet, salty and dry
all at once o well it's pie
Apple!
Pumpkin!
Minced
an' wet bottom.
Come to your place everyday if you've got em'
Pie
Me o my
I love pie

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-14 03:49 PM | Reply

No matter how you slice it, this pun is just bad all around.

#8 | Posted by zeropointnrg at 2024-03-14 04:15 PM | Reply

Pi Day was just invented by Mathematicians to sell more Math.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-14 09:50 PM | Reply

They didn't get to you though.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-14 10:27 PM | Reply

Pi day is overrated. 4/20 is when the magic happens

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-03-15 10:37 AM | Reply

And 'Pi day' is always followed by the 'Ides of March'.

OCU

#12 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-03-15 11:10 AM | Reply

" 'Pi day' is always followed by the 'Ides of March'."

Be where?
~A hard-of-hearing Caesar.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-03-15 11:45 AM | Reply

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288

I memorized it when I was in high school.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-15 05:23 PM | Reply

No matter where you go, that's where (you are).

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-15 05:24 PM | Reply

Even in engineering school, 3.14159 was good enough since the next digit was a '2', which meant any rounding would not have changed the '9'.

OCU

#16 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-03-16 12:12 PM | Reply

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