Friday, March 14, 2008

National Pi Day

I thought I would write this one, so Gammy would have fun explaining it to the campers.

3/14 is National Pi Day, in fact to celebrate correctly, you must begin at 1:59 (that is 3.14159).

Pi is a mathmatical constant which describes the ratio of a circle's circumference and its diameter or Pi = circumference/diameter.

Pi is also a special mathmatical expression because it's decimal representation is irrational, that is, it never repeats or ends.

The NY Times article suggests celebrating with a Pi-ku (3-1-4 instead of 5-7-5).

Why is pi
Square
As pie is round?

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