Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Pi Day

I've seen a lot today about the fact that three-fourteen is pie day. So the question is, what kind of pie? Apple, cherry, pumpkin...





Then I realized. The pi everyone is talking about is, according to Wikipedia,

π is an irrational number, which means that its value cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction having integers in both the numerator and denominator (unlike 22/7). Consequently, its decimal representation never ends and never repeats. π is also a transcendental number, which implies, among other things, that no finite sequence of algebraic operations on integers (powers, roots, sums, etc.) can render its value; proving this fact was a significant mathematical achievement of the 19th century.

Remember from school, pi is = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...

Feeling better?

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