Happy 4(1 -1/3 + 1/5 – 1/7 + 1/9 – 1/11 + … + [(-1)^(n-1)]/(2n-1) +…) Day everyone.
Get it? Pi Day? 3.14? March 14th?
And the title today? Pie? Ice Cream and Pie?
Yes, I know. Shameless.
But on me it looks good.
That first part … the numbers … was courtesy of one of my Math Professor friends. Yes I have more than one.
I’m pretty sure Pi has something to do with the circumference of a circle … and rolling it out. There was a cool GIF animation once.
But I digress.
Next year will be even more outrageous.
The number Pi starts 3.141592653.
So next year on this date it will be the only true Pi Day.
3/14/15 Then the next few numbers translate into 9:26:53.
Now, not to be totally ethnocentric or anything, but the whole world does not do their dates Month/Day/Year. So I’m thinking that Pi Day will only happen in some countries.
Because 3/14/15 doesn’t translate with Day/Month/Year. There is no 14th Month. And 31/4/15 doesn’t work either. Because April doesn’t have 31 Days.
Einstein would be proud. Today is his birthday.
An old friend who was known to be a Math Geek back in the day also celebrates his birthday today. I’ll include Einstein’s picture here.
The pie I refer to today is spelled Pi. As in “Life Of” as far as spelling goes.
And it has nothing to do with any Pie Charts … real or imagined.
It’s just your regular old Math thing.
Math Geeks will get this one.
Something about Rational and Irrational Numbers if I recall correctly.
I’m thinking that most of you today are reading my post and rolling your eyes.
“Funny, I never knew she was a Math Geek” you say.
Well, I guess it was all those cute boys with glasses and whatnot.
Or the numbers. I always liked the numbers.
Or maybe it was just that I really, really like Pie … and I misunderstood.
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Happy Pi Day! Pi makes the world go around. Without it, we’d all just be squiggly lines.
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HA! good one!
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