Michael Hartog » pi http://www.michaelhartog.com Detailing random personal things since 2008 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:07:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pi Day http://www.michaelhartog.com/blog/2008/03/pi-day/ http://www.michaelhartog.com/blog/2008/03/pi-day/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:57:56 +0000 Michael Hartog http://apocryblog.wordpress.com/?p=30 Today is pi day. March 14th. The 14th day of the third month. 3.14. You should get it by now. There will be pie given out today at the MC for this occasion, eat as much as you can to show your loyalty to the great pi. However, don’t eat some pumpkin pie, it’s the only kind I find tolerable. I just can’t eat fruits with my pastries, they are all squishy and gooey and it feels so unnatural. Like artsies doing math.

It is this day that we must honour one of our most valuable number. It stands next to e and root(2) and hold its own.

A limerick in homage of pi: (from limerickdb)

If a pendulum’s swinging quite free
Then it’s always a marvel to me
That each tick plus each tock
Of the grandfather clock
Is 2 pi root L over g.

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