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campylobacter) wrote2012-03-14 05:57 pm
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Writer's Block: National Pi Day
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RODNEY MCKAY: 135, but I'm shooting for 150 soon. 3.14159265358--
JOHN SHEPPARD: Um, Rodney? We don't care. (I've memorized 50, by the way.)
SAMANTHA CARTER: The Asgard data core once allowed me to enter up to 20 digits of pi to calculate a solar phase shift with random vect--
JACK O'NEILL: Carter, stop. The only pie worth talking about is one I'm about to eat.
DANIEL JACKSON: In Greek it's pronounced π, which is the first letter of περιφέρεια--
JACK: Daniel.
VALA MAL DORAN: General, you simply MUST taste the fruit pie Cameron's mother makes.
CAM MITCHELL: Aw yeah! I'm tellin' ya, hand-picked raspberries make all the difference.
TEAL'C: How may we obtain this pie?
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sg_fignewton's got some Samantha Carter genfic recs & graphics in honor of National Pi Day!
And HEY, y'all gotta vote for SG-1's astrophysicist in the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sf_marchmadness Sweet Sixteen!
If voting once isn't enough, vote for Sam 4 more times inholdouttrout 's SUPER AWESOME POLL OF AWESOME. :D
PI VS. TAU: CARTER/MCKAY STYLE (recycled from my Tumblr comments)
MCKAY: Oh, right, Sam. But you’re always reminding me that writing 2π in my calculations is pedantic and that everyone assumes the shorthand π implies 2π. But this way, writing τ is one less stroke and solves the shorthand, so what’s your problem?
SAM: That’s NOT the point, Rodney. It’s silly to make a big issue of a factor of 2. There’s no problem with having 2π radians in a circle. But the main reason is that tau is already in use; it’s the Golden ratio of the ancient Greeks, about 1.618. — an irrational number: (1 + sq root of 5) over 2.
Jack votes for pie
RODNEY MCKAY: 135, but I'm shooting for 150 soon. 3.14159265358--
JOHN SHEPPARD: Um, Rodney? We don't care. (I've memorized 50, by the way.)
SAMANTHA CARTER: The Asgard data core once allowed me to enter up to 20 digits of pi to calculate a solar phase shift with random vect--
JACK O'NEILL: Carter, stop. The only pie worth talking about is one I'm about to eat.
DANIEL JACKSON: In Greek it's pronounced π, which is the first letter of περιφέρεια--
JACK: Daniel.
VALA MAL DORAN: General, you simply MUST taste the fruit pie Cameron's mother makes.
CAM MITCHELL: Aw yeah! I'm tellin' ya, hand-picked raspberries make all the difference.
TEAL'C: How may we obtain this pie?
sg_fignewton's got some Samantha Carter genfic recs & graphics in honor of National Pi Day!And HEY, y'all gotta vote for SG-1's astrophysicist in the
sf_marchmadness Sweet Sixteen!If voting once isn't enough, vote for Sam 4 more times in
holdouttrout 's SUPER AWESOME POLL OF AWESOME. :D
The Courage Sam macro by Replicarters on Tumblr, wherein Carter rants about the fringe element that wants to get rid of pi...
PI VS. TAU: CARTER/MCKAY STYLE (recycled from my Tumblr comments)
MCKAY: Oh, right, Sam. But you’re always reminding me that writing 2π in my calculations is pedantic and that everyone assumes the shorthand π implies 2π. But this way, writing τ is one less stroke and solves the shorthand, so what’s your problem?
SAM: That’s NOT the point, Rodney. It’s silly to make a big issue of a factor of 2. There’s no problem with having 2π radians in a circle. But the main reason is that tau is already in use; it’s the Golden ratio of the ancient Greeks, about 1.618. — an irrational number: (1 + sq root of 5) over 2.
Jack votes for pie