Tomorrow is Pi Day, an international holiday celebrating the number Pi. Not only is it 3/14, the first three digits of Pi, but this year it is 3/14/15, the first 5digits of Pi. Here is an article from the Smithsonian giving some interesting facts about Pi, including the fact that Indiana once tried to pass a law changing the value to 3.2! Happy Pi Day to all my fellow nerds.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/indiana-almost-made-pi-equal-32-and-other-pi-day-facts-180954521/?utm_source=feedburner&no-ist
I will spend it working as any other "special"day except xmas and thanksgiving.
ReplyDeletePi r squared. But Mick pie are round cornbread are square.
If you stretch Pi out for a few more digits Pi = 3.1415926... so propose a toast at 9:26 when it will be 3.14.15 9:26
ReplyDelete“You better cut the pi in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six”
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William, at 9:26:83 this morning I ate breakfast by having a piece of pie.
ReplyDeleteHappy pi day Mick.
DeleteI learnt about Pi in an infant school in 1945 during the war years in England. As some will know, there were shortages of everything in those years and we were taught Pi was 22/7 it was not until we left school that the more common and modern definition was learnt.Pr/2 of course caused much excitement in the classroom although the solution using our methods was slightly inaccurate
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DeleteI recall first learning that Pi was 22/7 (3 + 1/7) in elementary school math. Of course we had no calculators, and it was close enought for country work. How things have changed.
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