L U N A T A L K with Eva Moon

A Piece of Pi

March 14, 2008 on 9:25 am | In General Musing |

Two holidays in one week! With National Napping Day hardly behind us, it’s already Pi Day: March 14 - 3.14.

In honor of the occasion, here are a few treats:

Pi in the kitchen

How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs (really!)

Haiku (piku?)

Three point one four one
Five nine two six five three five
Eight nine seven nine

Pi Hop

Pi in the face?

But is it true? A hoax revealed: One of the oldest hoaxes in history was unmasked today. A group of mathematicians, called “the Brotherhood” revealed that pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, long held to be an irrational number equal to 3.141592…, was actually equal to simply 3.

Cloaked in a green hood, one spokesperson, called ‘Pascal’ said that after years of soul searching and intense debate, the Brotherhood voted unanimously to reveal the hoax to the public… [link]

A friend points out that they can’t celebrate Pi Day in Europe, but I think they approximate it on July 22. I truly wish I could publish this post at exactly 1:59 pm today, but I’ll be out eating pizza pi.

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