Happy Pi Day, 2018

[Bruce Weaver]

* Happy Pi Day, 2018.
clear *
import delimited ///
"http://ia800206.us.archive.org/18/items/AsciiPi/ascii_pi.txt", delimit(comma)
drop if ltrim(v1)=="" // delete blank rows
list, clean noobs
display  _newline(1) "The constant pi = " c(pi)

[Nick Cox]

https://blog.stata.com/tag/tau/ links to and contains advocacy for tau.

Tau Day (tau is 2 pi) is June 28 (6/28). That's easier to see if you write dates US style, as I just did. In at least one country, mine, the form 28/6 is more common.

[Clyde Schechter]

Bruce, very nice! Thanks.

By the way, it is with joy and sorrow, respectively, that I note that pi day is also the birthday of Albert Einstein and the day that Stephen Hawking died.

Happy Pi Day to all.

[Bruce Weaver]

. * Another way to get pi:  pi = 4*atan(1).
. * Source:  http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21476209.
.
. display  _newline(1) c(pi) _newline(1) 4*atan(1)

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