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Happy Pi Day!
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GrownupGirl
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I HATE math.
I especially hate it when people use it to make them look like intellectuals or whatever. The only way you'd make me like this "holiday" is if you put an "e" at the end. Pie are not square, pie are round.
I especially hate it when people use it to make them look like intellectuals or whatever. The only way you'd make me like this "holiday" is if you put an "e" at the end. Pie are not square, pie are round.
"Pi Day is on March 14, and any day that combines fun, education, and pie is a day worth celebrating! Pi, also known by the Greek letter “π,” is a constant value used in math that represents the ratio of a circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is just about 3.14….15…9265359… (and so on). Not only that, but the fourteenth of March is also Albert Einstein’s birthday..."
"...How did Pi Day end up in a country-wide phenomenon? For that, we need to travel to the Exploratorium in 1988 San Francisco, where it was thought up by physicist Larry Shaw.
Shaw linked March 14 with the first digits of pi (3.14) in order to organize a special day to bond the Exploratorium staff together, where he offered fruit pies and tea to everyone starting at 1:59 pm, the following three digits of the value. A few years later, after Larry’s daughter, Sara, remarked that the special date was also the birthday of Albert Einstein, they started celebrating the life of the world-famous scientist."
NATIONAL PI DAY - March 14, 2020 | National Today
"...How did Pi Day end up in a country-wide phenomenon? For that, we need to travel to the Exploratorium in 1988 San Francisco, where it was thought up by physicist Larry Shaw.
Shaw linked March 14 with the first digits of pi (3.14) in order to organize a special day to bond the Exploratorium staff together, where he offered fruit pies and tea to everyone starting at 1:59 pm, the following three digits of the value. A few years later, after Larry’s daughter, Sara, remarked that the special date was also the birthday of Albert Einstein, they started celebrating the life of the world-famous scientist."
NATIONAL PI DAY - March 14, 2020 | National Today
Pi always reminds me of a particular scene from an Alfred Hitchcock film titled, "Torn Curtain".
When a physicist (Paul Newman) uses his foot to make the Pi symbol in front of a woman who was his espionage contact at a remote farm in East Germany.
And right behind him is his STASI "minder", assigned to follow him everywhere he goes. Who walks up to Newman and tells him the mathematical definition of Pi. And then adds that it also represents "two-bit dirty little spy operations". Telling him, "It's the big house for you. They'll give you life."
Proceeded by a carefully choreographed murder of the Stasi agent by the physicist with his bare hands and use of a primitive, but working kitchen gas oven. Considered as a memorable Hollywood homicide.
The film was a failure at the box office. I loved it, as I would with most Cold War thrillers of the time.
When a physicist (Paul Newman) uses his foot to make the Pi symbol in front of a woman who was his espionage contact at a remote farm in East Germany.
And right behind him is his STASI "minder", assigned to follow him everywhere he goes. Who walks up to Newman and tells him the mathematical definition of Pi. And then adds that it also represents "two-bit dirty little spy operations". Telling him, "It's the big house for you. They'll give you life."
Proceeded by a carefully choreographed murder of the Stasi agent by the physicist with his bare hands and use of a primitive, but working kitchen gas oven. Considered as a memorable Hollywood homicide.
The film was a failure at the box office. I loved it, as I would with most Cold War thrillers of the time.
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