I realised after I had posted that the reason I never noticed the pi connection to my birthday is because in the Uk we write dates logically in increasing order of unit size - days/months/years. Doesn't look quite so pi like then!
Duncan ----- Original Message ----- From: "GameOfDeath2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:20 PM Subject: [Speed cubing group] Re: 3.14159265358979 > --- In [email protected], "Duncan Dicks" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> I consider myself a bit of a geek but I never realised my birthday is pi >> day. > > Not even close to a geek then. > > When I was running up to the last couple of weeks I had a counter running > down to my 1 > billionth birth second. : ) > I'd accounted for the leap seconds etc. but I was only able to nail the > exact time down to > +/- 60 seconds. [Time of birth is only recorded to the minute. : ( ] > I took a lunch break so I could celebrate. > > Also last time I was in NY I arranged to see a friend for my 1/3 century. > (Although this was > just 33 years + 4 months rather than exactly 100/3 years. I was in the UK > at the erxact > time, which was the previous day.) > > And I'm not a geek, so not realizing that, I'd say you're not either. > Unless you are in the > original sideshow sense! > >>Problem is that outside of this community I don't know anyone who >> would find this the least bit interesting. Well I'll just have to be >> satisfied with my own sense of happiness on this one. >> >> Duncan >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tyson Mao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 2:49 PM >> Subject: Re: [Speed cubing group] Re: 3.14159265358979 >> >> >> > True, though... I think most things "pi" related don't usually round... >> > gosh, what geeks are we debating the rounding of pi! With "pi" day, >> > it's generally on March 14, at 1:59 PM, and well, I guess you could >> > carry it out for more decimal places, and in this case as well, >> > rounding makes no sense. >> > >> > We actually had Brent do the F2L on the cube. Given it's a 7 step >> > situation, it comes out to about .59... I think? Eh... I'm not sure. >> > >> > Tyson Mao >> > Astrophysics '06 >> > California Institute of Technology >> > >> > On Feb 19, 2006, at 2:56 AM, GameOfDeath2 wrote: >> > >> >> --- In [email protected], Tyson Mao <tmao@> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I think Brent Morgan is going to stop after 3141 cubes. He'll >> >>> probably >> >>> solve half a cube after that, but exhaustion is definitely setting >> >>> in. >> >>> Tune into the webcast to see the finale! >> >>> >> >>> Tyson Mao >> >>> Astrophysics '06 >> >>> California Institute of Technology >> >>> >> >> >> >> I think that guess came a bit late in the day! >> >> I'm kind of curious, given the subject, why not go for 3142. Rounding >> >> off to 3 decimal >> >> places and multippying by 1000 would give 3142. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Yahoo! Groups Links >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
