Pi day "grr"

[MichaelW2]

A Gregg's pie for £3.14 ; I'll bite.

 

[MichaelW2]

Isn't that Pi Approximation day? (I nicked that from the wikipedia article)

It is approximately Pi day.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

A Gregg's pie for £3.14 ; I'll bite.

I think you'll find it's slightly more than that.

 

[Dan B]

Don't you think the German word "Schadenfreude" is expressed quite well by the single English word "schadenfreude"?

I think that your bald implication there that "schadenfreude" is an English word required at the very least considerable élan, and arguably shaded into chutzpah

 

[swansonj]

I think that your bald implication there that "schadenfreude" is an English word required at the very least considerable élan, and arguably shaded into chutzpah

Touché.

 

[postman]

The Prince of pies,our Vernon would have said,Any day is a pie day.

 

[lazybloke]

A quick calculation

 

[palinurus]

Catching up ....

FTFY

Fair do's

 

[ADarkDraconis]

A Gregg's pie for £3.14 ; I'll bite.

The grocery store across the road from my work is selling their bakery's lovely pies today for $3.14 and they're normally $12! I am thinking apple and cherry...

 

[marinyork]

But what I’m suggesting is that pi can only ever be the sum of an infinite number of parts or a product of a number that you cannot express.

Forget transcendental numbers.

Take algebraic numbers. A huge number of quintic and higher order equations cannot be solved in terms of radicals. The problem is this is not appreciated because schools obsess over quadratic equations and even then most people don't get taught what happens when the square root is negative. Galois theory tends to be a 2nd or 3rd year module in a reasonably robust university if you do straight maths with nothing else.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Galois theory

Is that the smokers one?

 

[MontyVeda]

The grocery store across the road from my work is selling their bakery's lovely pies today for $3.14 and they're normally $12! I am thinking apple and cherry...

yeah but i'll bet they're a bit bigger than a Greggs pie.

 

[Seevio]

It's a number that you cannot express as a ratio of two integers but that doesn't mean it's inexpressible, it just means you're limiting your options artificially. You can't express "the attraction due to gravity" as a ratio of two integers, you can't express Schadenfreude as a single English word, and you can't express the result of rolling a ten-sided dice 1000 times using a number between 1 and 4

A ten-sided die. Dice is plural. You can express the result of rolling a ten-sided die 1000 times using a number between 1 and 4 (inclusive) if the function is along the lines of MOD 4 (SUM) + 1.

I have nothing useful to add at this point. Just thought I ought to post something.

 

[Dan B]

A ten-sided die. Dice is plural. You can express the result of rolling a ten-sided die 1000 times using a number between 1 and 4 (inclusive) if the function is along the lines of MOD 4 (SUM) + 1.

"Dice are plural", surely?

I have nothing useful to add at this point. Just thought I ought to post something.

Same.

 

[srw]

"Dice are plural", surely?

Same.

"Dice" is plural.