Countdown to Pi Day!

piday ^

[mylife]

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and eat pie.

Pi has been calculated to over 50 trillion digits beyond its decimal point. As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern. While only a handful of digits are needed for typical calculations, pi’s infinite nature makes it a fun challenge to memorize, and to computationally calculate more and more digits.

[Leaning Right]

> Pi is not a measured value but a computed value approximated by an enclosed polygon. <

Thanks for the post. As I noted earlier, I am fixated on the experimental. So I’d get out a length measuring device. Then pi = C / D, value-limited by that measuring device. But now that you mention it, I do recall once reading about that polygon method. It makes sense!

[TexasGator]

” It makes sense!”

The devil is in the details.