Red Sox WS wins separated by pi * 10^5 days??

[Syringer]

My friend was telling me he hard the Red Sox's WS victory in 1918 and the one today was separated by pi * 10^5 days, that is 31415 or 31416 days..which to a geek like me was an incredible statistic.

I can't find such a link however, has anyone ever read anything along those lines?

I did the math, and it seems to come close, but I don't feel like taking it all the way and figuring it out myself. Basically 88 years * 365 days = 31390 + ~ 22 leap year days = 31412 +/- the actual day it was on in the year would bring it pretty close to pi.

 

[notfred]

Excel can add and subtract dates, figure it out.

 

[jagec]

If it wasn't accurate to 10 significant figures, I don't care

 

[Crusty]

pi * 10^(log(spider)*5) u mean?

 

[fs5]

mysql> select TO_DAYS('2004-10-28') - TO_DAYS('1918-10-25');
+-----------------------------------------------+
| TO_DAYS('2004-10-28') - TO_DAYS('1918-10-25') |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| 31415 |
+-----------------------------------------------+


so it's true if you use 10/25 as the date of the 1918 world series... but I don't think that was the date of the last game was it?

 

[Syringer]

eh

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: fs5
mysql> select TO_DAYS('2004-10-28') - TO_DAYS('1918-10-25');
+-----------------------------------------------+
| TO_DAYS('2004-10-28') - TO_DAYS('1918-10-25') |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| 31415 |
+-----------------------------------------------+


so it's true if you use 10/25 as the date of the 1918 world series... but I don't think that was the date of the last game was it?

Apparently, per Wikipedia (I can't get to the sports almanac sites at work), the 1918 WS was held in early September. I know they only used to play 154 games, but honestly I didn't know the WS was held that much earlier in those days. This would be an interesting little factoid if it were true, but apparently it's not.

 

[HonkeyDonk]

Originally posted by: Syringer
My friend was telling me he hard the Red Sox's WS victory in 1918 and the one today was separated by pi * 10^5 days, that is 31415 or 31416 days..which to a geek like me was an incredible statistic.

I can't find such a link however, has anyone ever read anything along those lines?

I did the math, and it seems to come close, but I don't feel like taking it all the way and figuring it out myself. Basically 88 years * 365 days = 31390 + ~ 22 leap year days = 31412 +/- the actual day it was on in the year would bring it pretty close to pi.

you mean 86, not 88, but your math is still correct...just a typo

 

[z0mb13]

spider.


sorry but I had to