It is once again Pi Day! This one is for my father, who memorized (a whole bunch of digits of) pi back in grade school. It was a feat I never managed to equal, but perhaps with the help of this handy song, there’s still hope!
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Still Hope for Pi
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The Irrational Infinite
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Today is (once again) March 14th or Pi Day. For some background, I’ve written about it before:
Because today is a Monday there will be no pie for me, but it turns out my every waking moment is likely touched by pi. Yours too.
The New York Times has an interesting article on the history of pi and how embedded it’s become in our daily life.*
Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern
In every field of human endeavor, from reconstructive facial surgery to the simulation of air flowing past a jet’s wing, billions of tiny, discrete elements stand in for an inherently smooth and analog reality. It all began with the computation of pi. Pi represents a mathematical limit: an aspiration toward the perfect curve, steady progress toward the unreachable star.
So I will appreciate all the ways the irrational infinite has come to shape our rational, finite experience.
Also maybe later this week, dessert.
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* Here’s a bit more history for those who are interested: Which Came First, The Algorithm or the Pi? – Now I Know.
3.14 a.k.a. Pi Day
Posted in Food and..., Holidays, Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2021, #PiDay, pie, Travis McGee on March 14, 2021| 2 Comments »
Everyone and their uncle will be talking pi/e today, so I’m just going to leave it at a wish for a happy day, and pie.
It’s cold again today, with gusty winds and a bright clear sky that feels like winter will never leave. Still, Spring is near, I just picked up the first Travis McGee book again and my reader mind is in Florida with lemon and lime trees around every corner. Today I’m thinking of warmth and lemon meringue.
Will I make it? Maybe, but taxes are calling. Either way, it is a delightfully sweet, citrus-scented dream.
Whether you’re in it for the math or the sugar, here’s hoping you have a very Happy Pi Day, folks!
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