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On Pi Day [March 14, 2013], finding strength in numbers
CNN ^
| March 14, 2013
| Elizabeth Landau,
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.
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TOPICS: Education; History
KEYWORDS: math; mathmatics; pi; stringtheory
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To: N. Theknow
Maybe we seafood differently. ;D [argh!]
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posted on
03/14/2013 6:08:36 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: Mercat
Meercats I have known...
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posted on
03/14/2013 6:10:30 AM PDT
by
stormer
To: M Kehoe
You're a fruit...:)
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posted on
03/14/2013 6:12:09 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: stormer
My screen name actually means Mere Catholicism. But I choose it the year that The Lion King came out so Timon came to mind also. Since then (mid 90s) people have given me meercats.
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posted on
03/14/2013 6:17:37 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Daffynition
You're a fruit...:)No, I'm a fraction. Twenty two sevenths to be exact.
8^)
5.56mm
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posted on
03/14/2013 6:30:01 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: Daffynition
OMC!
(Oh, my cod!)
Ever had a dolphin-fish look directly at you?
Mahi making eyes at me!
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posted on
03/14/2013 6:43:25 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/14/2013 6:43:35 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:05:39 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Daffynition
Great...my grandson is obsessed with pirates, so this is perfect.
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:23:05 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: M Kehoe
Right you are! Fraction meet fractal [me]
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:30:40 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: JoeProBono
And it's Einstein's birthday too!
What a celebration today!
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:34:55 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
I didn’t know you hailed from the Emerald City!
Cool! Lots of good eats in Seattle.
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:37:30 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: N. Theknow
Magnum pi >>Mahi making eyes at me!<<...I can wish, can't I?
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:40:37 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:50:51 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/14/2013 8:07:00 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Daffynition
There is a place up on Phinney Ridge (on Phinney Ave. N. next to the Woodland Park Zoo) that sells only pies and ice cream called A la Mode Pies.
They are expensive but quite good from what I hear.
http://alamodeseattle.com/
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posted on
03/14/2013 8:09:52 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Daffynition
I no longer celebrate Pi day. I support
Tau day instead. The guy makes a lot of sense why Tau is a more useful number than Pi. Remember, a Pi is only half a Tau!
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posted on
03/14/2013 8:22:18 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
03/14/2013 9:09:16 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: zeugma
I’m a wishy-washy mathematician! So I can be converted easily. I like this. I will read more! Thank you.
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posted on
03/14/2013 9:36:08 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: Daffynition
I’m a wishy-washy mathematician! So I can be converted easily. I like this. I will read more! Thank you. Glad you like it.
I think these 3 graphics are some of the strongest points in the favor of Tau:
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posted on
03/14/2013 10:16:15 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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