Posted on 03/14/2013 5:11:50 AM PDT by Daffynition
In Daniel Tammet's mind, three is a dotted green crescent moon shape, one is a sort of white sunburst and four is a blue boomerang. Every number has a distinct color and shape, making the number pi, which begins with 3.14, unfold like a beautiful poem.
For math enthusiasts around the world, March 14 (3-14) is Pi Day, honoring the number pi, which is the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle. On Thursday, Tammet is promoting France's first Pi Day celebration at the Palace of Discovery science museum in Paris.
Tammet's relationship to this number is special: At age 25, he recited 22,514 digits of pi from memory in 2004, scoring the European record. For an audience at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, he said these numbers aloud for 5 hours and 9 minutes. Some people cried -- not out of boredom, but from sheer emotion from his passionate delivery.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
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Ordered a pizza.
Thus we enjoyed pizza Pi.
PI = 22/7
Some other Pi and Pi Day related comics (go to the oldest and work your way forward, or you'll read some out of order.)
Neither. It was the original Italian style, ;)
That’s irrational. :)
If you eat pizza with your mouth open, is it "See-Rations?";)
For us.....Tigers and meerkats? What's not to love?!
Flying fish were awesome as well.
5.56mm
Very cool movie. Oh, and the number three to me is female and blue. Has been like that all my life. I used to see colors in letters and numbers and each had personalities but that part of my brain has, I think, atrophied a bit. Four is male. I don’t like 4 very much. I do like prime numbers and have sometimes put myself to sleep counting by primes. I’ve never been particularly interested in Pi.
Tiger, of course. I thought the bioluminescence was very cool and I especially liked the whale shark...
Obviously I loved the meercats. I also loved Richard Parker. And the sky.
I also liked the scene where he caught the mahi-mahi. I’ve never seen one alive, but I have heard that their color is spectacular and fades very quickly when they die. My wife bought the movie after reading the book - I guess I’ll read it now and will definitely watch the movie again - it’s a keeper.
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