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RogueScholar

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Since Pi (π) is approximated 3.14, typically March 14 serves as a commemoration of Archimedes of Syracuse's revelation that the fraction 22/7 represents an accurate ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle in Euclidian Space, and by extension the ratio between its area and the square of its radius. Considering he did this over 200 years before the birth of Jesus, I think it's worthy of note.

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I should, shouldn't I? It would be fun, but I generally don't make pies until I have fruit from the orchard. Is there a type of pie that's delicious enough to warrant a trip to Mendocino to buy the fixings? Usually I just make apple pie and peach/apricot cobbler, and neither of those could convince me to leave the house today.
 
RogueJuror
Peter were you good at math in college?

I've notice some people good with words aren't so big into math.
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God no! I did have a good head for math when I was younger; I'd always blow the state achievement tests out of the water in the math section when I was 8-13 or so. But as I got older and math got more abstract I felt like a duck out of water. On the SAT I got a 760 verbal and a 600 math, both good scores, but it was a wake-up call for me that what had previously been my "wheelhouse" wasn't a strength of mine anymore. By the time I got to Oregon State I'd decided that getting high marks was way more important to me than continuing in a math-intensive scientific field (I was thinking engineering or chemistry at that point) and so I started shopping around the College of Liberal Arts for a faculty I could get along with. After running into Prof. Borg a few times and hearing the passion in his voice when he'd tell me "Ideas matter!", I knew I wanted to study in the presence of that man. Thus began a life-long affair with reading, writing and attempting to change the world around me by analyzing the way I think about it.
 
Did you know that astronomers are constantly transmitting the number pi into outer space? It is in case there are intelligent listeners out there. If they are clever enough to develop technology to detect signals from earth they have almost definitely figured out what pi is. So it is the astronomers way of saying, "Howdy. We are here and we are reasonably intelligent and we have something in common."

I like it. Happy Pi Day everyone.
 
Mudcat
Did you know that astronomers are constantly transmitting the number pi into outer space? It is in case there are intelligent listeners out there. If they are clever enough to develop technology to detect signals from earth they have almost definitely figured out what pi is. So it is the astronomers way of saying, "Howdy. We are here and we are reasonably intelligent and we have something in common."

I like it. Happy Pi Day everyone.
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I almost wish it was an audio message, because I have a mental construct of Mudcat saying "Howdy," and I really can't think of a better first impression for humanity. I'd even tolerate a curling reference in the message if it got Muddy to do it. Do we have a curling smiley?
 
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