Happy Pi Day – 3.14.2010 – Pi Day Jokes and Star Trek

Happy Pi Day – 3.14.2010 – Pi Day Jokes and Star Trek (h/t http://blog.sfgate.com/abraham)






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Happy Pi Day! Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. But why is Pi Day celebrated today, Sunday, March 14th? Because it’s 3.14, and Pi is 3.1415926535. This blogger remembers being introduced to the concept of Pi as a kid while watching Star Trek The Original Series.



In Wolf in the Fold, which was a second season episode originally aired in 1967, Scotty was suspected of killing several women while on shore leave on a planey called Argelius II, but an an evil entity was actually at fault for those murders. Eventually, it tried to take over The Enterprise itself. In order to get rid of it, Spock instructed the Enterprise computer to “compute to the last digit, the value of pi”. Here’s the scene…
http://www.startrek.com/database_article/wolf-in-the-fold





Believe it or not, there are Pi Day Jokes! While many of them are just plain corny, you can’t get through Pi Day without them, so here they are:









Mathematician: “Pi r squared”



Student: “No teacher! Pies are round, cakes are square!”



Question: What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter?



Answer: Pi in the sky by and by.



Q: What do you get when you take green cheese and divide its circumference by its diameter?



A: Moon Pi.





And here’s my Pi Day Joke:



What do you get when you take the head of a Treasonous Liberal and divide its its circumference by its diameter? Answer: Small Pi – they’re pinheads!



Stay tuned.