happy pi day

[burrocrat]

Pi Day 2015: Ten digits represented on March 14 at 9:26:53.

But ask a school kid how he or she was engaged in math on Pi Day and invariably you will hear, “We ate pie and memorized digits.” Ask what π is, and you are likely to get, “Something to do with a circle.”

Of course, the original pronunciation of ancient languages can never be known for certain, but most scholars today would agree that the true ancient pronunciation of π is actually “pee” (pē). Second-graders would have a fun day with that ancient pronunciation, even though they’d miss the pies.

what are you doing today at 9:26:53 today? oddly enough, as fate would have it, i will be travelling to a basketball tournament. and basketballs are round and travel through space in unexplainable ways sometimes, so it seems rather fitting, like it was meant to be or something. my pastor looks at me funny when i tell him i know god exists because of pie. i just say "look, it's like this, we all come back to the same place we began, like a big old circle." that is something we both can agree on. i just wish he would making a big deal out of all my sins. then we usually get bogged down in an arguement about "don't sin" versus "well, why did he make it so much fun then?"

 

[nasa1974]

Spending Pi day babysitting my grandson. He is to young to eat pie but his dad likes pie and my wife makes some great pie crusts.

 

[maui21ice]

Peach pie really is the best down South. Carrying this into the Ides of March celebration today.