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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Tau Beta Pi, etc., fundraising

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Some organizations have taken to using the day for puns on their name in fundraising e-mails. For example, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for which the normal acronym is RPI, sends e-mails near March 14 in which it calls itself Rπ or RPi, and the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi has also done Pi Day-related fundraising. Does this belong in the article? If so, someone other than me should add it because too much of what I know is "original research" (mainly, or really exclusively, reading the e-mails that have been sent to me).47.139.43.80 (talk) 03:51, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If there's a reliable third-party source mentioning them, those sound like good things to add to the elenfation section, but only as brief mentions, lest the section be overly tilted toward them. oknazevad (talk) 14:57, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

approximation day?

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22/7 is a better approximation to pi than 3.14 you know. Why would this be "approximation day" vs pi day? Anyway, the one linked citation is broken and I find no other evidence of this actually being "celebrated".. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gjxj (talk • contribs) 12:04, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not only 22/7, but also stuff like ⁹³⁷²⁴⁶¹⁵⁸∕₂₉₈₃₄₁₅₆₇ and other fractions like that? And we should probably also provide a link to Pi, Pie, and the official Pi day website. 68.50.116.194 (talk) 20:21, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

But there's no way to have a recurring date with those fractions, unlike 22/7. oknazevad (talk) 23:08, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Pi ≈ 22/7 actually maps to at least two dates. Like 22 July, 22 September is also a Pi approximation day because the name of September is literally a reference the 7th month, and therefore it can also be viewed as 22/7.
Another Pi approximation date could be the 116th day of a non-leap year, because 365/116 (or 365.24219/116) ≈ 3.15 are closest to the value of Pi. April 26 is the 116th day of the Gregorian calendar, it is the 117th day during a leap year, fortunately 366/117 ≈ 3.13 is closer to the value of Pi than the 116th day of a leap year.
One of the interesting alignments is that April 26 was the last day of the renowned mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Re.educated (talk) 03:07, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Another interesting alignment about September 22 is that it was the last day of Pal Singh Purewal who designed a Nanakshahi calendar reform such that Purewal's Nanakshahi New Year Day is aligned to March 14. Re.educated (talk) 04:12, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Similarly, a Tau approximation date is the 58th day of the year because 365/58 and 366/58 are closer to the value of Tau than a divisor of 57 or 59. February 27 is the 58th day of the Gregorian calendar. Re.educated (talk) 03:47, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Provide WP:reliable sources that those dates are considered variants of a "Pi approximation day", and we can decide if they should be included. Anything else is WP:Original research. Renerpho (talk) 05:05, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

humor aspect

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Maybe the humorous aspect of the Pi-Day should be mentioned. As a mathematician I laughed a lot, when I first heard of the Pi-Day. But a lot of people I have talked to did not understand that kind of humor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.55.22.67 (talk) 18:54, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I understand where you're going with this. Pi has multiple dimensions. Pie, pee, and crystal meth ('P' in NZ).
(Different from the NZ colloquialism for ‘pie, pea and pud’[1][2] 😉) Re.educated (talk) 02:41, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

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Add a thing at the beginning of the page called "√-1 2³ ∑ π'"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.116.194 (talk) 20:15, 17 November 2021 (UTC) [reply]

What is the relevance of this? ISaveNewspapers (talk) 07:20, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@ISaveNewspapers: "I ate some pie". It's a maths meme,[1] which I think has no relevance to the article. Renerpho (talk) 07:32, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

the Exploratorium

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"an employee of the San Francisco science museum, the Exploratorium" isn't quite right, because there are other science museums in SF. Y'all probably won't let me fix it by calling it "the best San Francisco science museum," but it kinda saddens me to suggest "a SF science museum" because that minimizes the huge importance of the Exploratorium in the history of science museums. Oh well, maybe you can just make the link blinking or something. Briankharvey (talk) 21:49, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    Baker, Brittany (1 Jan 2018). "Hey uce, here's a mean-as guide to Kiwi regional slang". Stuff. Retrieved 17 Dec 2024.
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    Schader, Ben (11 Mar 2010). "Street life". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 17 Dec 2024.
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