Saturday, March 14, 2015
I'VE BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING IRRATIONAL AT TIMES: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286 208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481 117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233 786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006 ...
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Favorite thing about pi? The time the state of Indiana passed a bill to define it as 3.2, in order to teach Indiana students how to square a circle (which is, of course, impossible). The reason it eventually got stopped? They found Waldo. Specifically, a Professor Waldo of the Purdue mathematics department, who just happened to be walking through the capitol on other business that day, who set them straight. Or circular, as the case may have been.
ReplyDeleteI would be remiss if I did not note -- as my Dad has reminded me at least fortnightly for my entire life -- there are pi * 10^7 seconds in a year. (Or, near enough - 31,500,000ish).
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