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Re: [OM] It'sPi Day!

Subject: Re: [OM] It'sPi Day!
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:15:57 +0000
Very good Wayne!  Also assumes a 12-hr clock face ;-)

On 17 March 2016 at 10:00, Wayne Harridge <
wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So a 1hr slice is the same as a 5min slice ?  I guess it depends on
> whether the reference is the big hand or the little hand.
>
> ...Wayne
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> structuregraphs.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jez Cunningham
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> Subject: Re: [OM] It'sPi Day!
>
> When it comes to cutting pies and cakes we use the 'minutes in the hour'
> division principle.  e.g. "I'll have a 10-minute slice please".  It seems
> to work with everyone - I guess we can all visualise a clock face and its
> division into 12 segments.  And of course 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6
> :-)
> Jez
>
> On 16 March 2016 at 20:11, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 3/16/2016 9:37 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> >
> >> I'm a key lime pi kinda gi.
> >>
> >
> > Ah, great minds . . .
> >
> > As my mind was idling last night, I thought that perhaps we called
> > these foods pies because they were circles and p might be used to
> > calculate the angles for cutting. But then that seemed like it might
> > require actual thought, and it idled off in some other direction. :-)
> >
> > I didn't have any pie, so I had a small piece of cake with ice cream.
> > Insofar as I know, no ps were used or harmed . . .
> >
> > Devil's Plaything Moose
> >
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> > What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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