To all my fellow HP41 punchers, slide rule slippers - round and rectangular, engineer logbook thumbers,
Happy Pi Day!
As a blacksmith I’ve always been
Partial to .7854, it comes in so handy.
Oh now that’s old school and brings back memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh17KRnkw0Y
The above is a link to a one-minute video from the old TV show “Person of Interest”. The computer geek millionaire is undercover at an inner-city school as a math teacher, and some punk asks “Yeah so what is all this math good for?”
So he explains Pi - and how it is a never-ending sequence of numbers and contains all of the information of your life. Somewhere. As a geek I enjoyed it - and thought-provoking.