Showing posts with label 3.14. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Mar 15 2022 - Pi Day Yesterday

 

That was Pi Day yesterday - 3.14.  


Pi has a long celebration for the the chronology of its computation.  The Wikipedia entry  HERE shows its milestones:

Before 1400
1400-1949
1949-2009
2009 - present

The most accurate value of Pi?
A Swiss university has set a new world record for calculating the mathematical constant pi to 62.8 trillion decimal places. To reach this record a supercomputer worked solidly for 108 days and nine hours, according to the team from The University of Applied Sciences in Graubünden. April 2021

The most Pi places memorized?  
It is 70,000 and achieved by Rajveer Meena on March 15 2015.  It took nearly 10 hours.  He was blindfolded.

I can't imagine being named Pi.  It would be an "unending" series of jokes on one's name.  It is a Chinese surname so not quite as bad as a first name.  However, Wikipedia says that Chinese people address each other with surname, first name and middle name, so I guess it would be a probable source of irritation.  I guess that this is part of the reason I find Pi jokes so funny. A name and a mathematical construct.  How many Pi jokes are there?  More than 3.14!

Here are just a few.   

Why should you never start talking to pi at a party?
Because it just goes on forever.

Why is pi so lucky in love?
Because its love is infinite and non-repeating.

What do you call it when someone gets a huge tattoo of pi on their face?
An irrational decision.

Why shouldn’t you eat too much pi?
You’ll end up with a big circumference.

Why did pi fail its driving test?
Because it didn’t know when to stop.


 


A note to self to make sure I grow Sweet Peas this year - they have a wonderful fragrance. 
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