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Down with pi!

Everyone knows that tau is superior and more practical than pi!! This page should be renamed half tau. User:Lefty

what about Phi (golden ratio) or e ? LordSlug ^{誇らしげに2008年からソファの上に手の平} 02:18, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Fun?

I wrote up a little bit about the Indiana pi bill and I'll post it this weekend. Anyone object if I move this to "fun"space and replace with a short "pi" page basically to disambiguate between the new page, the squaring the circle page, and any other cranky pages? As it stands this article is not particularly on-mission, to be charitable. --MarkGall (talk) 02:21, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

On second look, some bits of it are worth salvaging. Maybe move to fun and copy some of the better sections to the new page? --MarkGall (talk) 02:24, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Go real slow there, this is one of our shining moments. Hack it up or move it to fun and you might incur the wrath of many. ħuman 06:44, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Sure thing, don't want to step on any toes. Would it be OK to just add a sentence at the top linking to the other pi-related articles? --MarkGall (talk) 12:41, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

OK, I posted the new page and added links to it and some others at the top of this one. But really, this page is basically devoid of content and is written in the style of a funspace article -- would I really incur wrath if I moved it back there? --MarkGall (talk) 19:15, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

I agree it is too much fun and should be moved. If we get one more we'll have a consensus.  Lily ^{Inspirate me.} 19:26, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

move it. Тy^Talk. 19:27, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Sadly it is rather free of content. So I'd say move it. Sort of a shame though.--Bob^{Spring is sprung!} 19:30, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Hey, I don't mean to suggest that it doesn't belong in "Best of Rationalwiki" or "Best of Amusement". Just seems like this is the sort of thing that Fun was made for. --MarkGall (talk) 19:32, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for making the move, Ty. I'll stick something new here in a couple days if there aren't more objections to the fun:nification. If it gets moved back, no big deal. --MarkGall (talk) 19:41, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Oh jesus

This page made all four bodily humors escape through my mouth at the same timeThreadnaught (talk) 21:24, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Appearance in electrical engineering textbooks

Somewhere in (if not throughout) Student Manual for The Art of Electronics, the reader is told π = 3 (and/or 2π = 6). This, along with practical components having tolerances like ±10% anyways, facilitates liberal usage of nice round numbers for "close enough" pen-and-notebook calculations. Then again, I was studying at a religious liberal arts university… Chrstphrchvz (talk) 09:21, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

The BBC also suggests 3 as an approximation for pi.[1] But if pi=3, when do you celebrate Pi Day? March the zeroeth? --Annanoon (talk) 14:03, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

It is not special.

Syntarsus (talk) 17:32, 13 May 2023 (UTC) What about E? Also is it really infinite because in that way 7 is infinite in 7.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ETC.