Happy Pi Day I
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
I don’t remember anyone ever mentioning Pi Day when I was in school, but any excuse to celebrate math sounds like fun. March 14 at 1:59 (a.m. or p.m.) is about as close as the calendar can get to 3.14159…
Here are a few pi-related links you may find interesting:
Search for your birthday, or any other special number, in the digits of pi
[The string 314159 occurs at position 176,451 counting from the first digit after the decimal point.]How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs
[hat tip: Grey Matters]Or how to simulate the frozen hot dog experiment with a Java applet
March 14 Is Albert Einstein’s Birthday
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.
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- Happy Pi Day II
- More Fun With Pi
- Planning Ahead: St. Patrick’s Day
- Math Storytelling Day
- Writing to Learn Math
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