The date today is 3-14, and our mathematical friend pi is roughly equivalent to 3.14 - does anyone else feel a holiday coming on? Complete with baked goods cooked right into its name? Me too. And the variety is key lime.
Here's a poem to memorize pi to 20 digits (you count the number of letters in each word—of course, as Americans a period would make more sense to us than the comma): Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling In mystic truth and rigid spelling Numerical sprites elucidate For me the lexicon's full weight
The date today is 3-14, and our mathematical friend pi is roughly equivalent to 3.14 - does anyone else feel a holiday coming on? Complete with baked goods cooked right into its name? Me too. And the variety is key lime.
5 comments:
Are you really still celebrating pie day? Didn't you do that in college? I remember you making a pie to celebrate. Man, I love your guts!
hee hee! sounds like a fantastic holiday to me!
Good idea! I'm sure Matt agrees.
Here's a poem to memorize pi to 20 digits (you count the number of letters in each word—of course, as Americans a period would make more sense to us than the comma):
Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic truth and rigid spelling
Numerical sprites elucidate
For me the lexicon's full weight
Jon, that poem says lots about you. And I love it.
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