COMPLETE: [MATH] - Fifty Digits of Pi; Scott Hemphill - tc

Post by **chocoholic** » March 13th, 2008, 5:05 pm

Great Plains wrote:So ...

Is Mole Day still a-go?

It is.

Cataloging has turned into a collaborative effort -- fitting, yes? -- and we are toiling away behind the scenes (cue melancholy violin). Unless Archive stalls out, it'll be finished tomorrow if not tonight.

Mole Day? --off to Google-- been a long time since my last chemistry class. Now Mexican mole sauce, rodent moles, CIA moles, those I know about.

Post by **hugh** » March 13th, 2008, 5:10 pm

i refuse to celebrate mole day. where I come from it's avagadro's day.

Shurtagal · Post by **Shurtagal** » March 13th, 2008, 5:51 pm

hmm. interesting idea regarding mole day. how would one celebrate? (On LV I mean) Its not like it readily lends itself to conversion to binary: 11001000000000000000000000000
Be fun to do if anyone has ideas?

a.r.dobbs · Post by **a.r.dobbs** » March 13th, 2008, 6:54 pm

Cori and I have dabbled at a quick summary for the catalog page. Thoughts, Zach? Anybody?

57 varieties of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infinite string of numbers: each reader presents just the first 50 digits in styles of their own choosing.

In light of the spirit of this occasion (and the might of our spirited community), this LibriVox offering makes a gentle exception to the policy of faithfully presenting just the text. This is the real Pi, but served up with a side of sillies -- it's Pi a la volunteer.

Steampunk, loved your post (previous page)!! Spot on.

Great Plains · Post by **Great Plains** » March 13th, 2008, 6:59 pm

Well, naturally, we should aim to get 6.022e23 recordings for the catalog ...

Great Plains · Post by **Great Plains** » March 13th, 2008, 7:00 pm

a.r.dobbs wrote:Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infinite string of numbers

Say, I have an idea for next year ...

Shurtagal · Post by **Shurtagal** » March 13th, 2008, 7:16 pm

Great job on the summary, I think its ready to go, TY.
Ambitious goal, If wee had that many peas we could cover 23 earth sized planets in 1 meter of peas!

Great Plains · Post by **Great Plains** » March 13th, 2008, 7:25 pm

Shurtagal wrote:Great job on the summary, I think its ready to go, TY.
Ambitious goal, If wee had that many peas we could cover 23 earth sized planets in 1 meter of peas!

Where would we get that many peas?

Post by **hugh** » March 13th, 2008, 7:43 pm

we'll have to start collecting them now!

a.r.dobbs · Post by **a.r.dobbs** » March 13th, 2008, 8:29 pm

but but but -- I'm convinced that's outside the scope of LibriVox and will lead to PeaDomain debates...

Great Plains · Post by **Great Plains** » March 13th, 2008, 9:47 pm

Don't forget the vegetable rights activists. That's all kinds of paperwork right there.

* No peas were harmed in the making of this post.

But a bunch of potatoes were.

puffin1 · Post by **puffin1** » March 14th, 2008, 12:55 am

Shurtagal's post had me visualizing whirled peas. Made me happy.

Starlite · Post by **Starlite** » March 14th, 2008, 4:20 am

Drum roll please!!!

http://librivox.org/the-first-fifty-digits-of-pi/

Esther

russiandoll · Post by **russiandoll** » March 14th, 2008, 7:03 am

digitaltoast · Post by **digitaltoast** » March 14th, 2008, 11:19 am

The BBC have a "your pi stories" form on it's Pi Day story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7296224.stm

Might be worth dropping them a note about this project....