What is pie? Who better to ask than a poetess? She is sure to have a numerological opinion she can beautifully articulate. Some may think it's a pizza, but this is not New York or Vicenza, Veneto, Italy with its famous piazzas. Surely the greatest of pies is the blueberry, healthful and delicious.
But, wordsmith, what would that have to do with today of all days?
Well, it may be arbitrary, like most National Days, although my robotic phone seems to indicate that pie has more to do with Pi (3.14159) or Greek π, than the baked variety. Maybe in 1959, no, that doesn't make sense. Let me ask my egghead friendboy; he knows about stuff like this due to his Star Wars obsession and penchant for boring things.... Ah, pi seems to be a reference to math. How boring! I'd rather snack and sip tea, or even pizza or placing a puff of whipped cream in someone's face would be more fun.
Well, that was a wash. Might you produce a poem in honor of pi/pie?
Ode to the Baked
My friendboy likes his films
My friendboy likes his pi
If only he could see
That it's right between my
Did I mean to say peeps?
Did he hope digits point
at pants -- like he does when
I show him my flower
No, it's not a violet
No, it's not a red rose
But it is quite scarlet
And well known to his nose
COMMENTARY: Eyes, thighs? Rose, nose? You mean this is a sexually tinged iambic tetrameter terse but trite toss off? - No comment. Poetry is poetry, not math.
Young Sheldon was a jerk (The Big Bang Theory) - Oh my, everyone's eating sweet cherry pie
Pi Day Friday
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It's spelled Scarlett, Mr. Jost! |
The most accurate value for Pi, according to Guinness World Records, is more than 62 trillion digits (62,831,853,071,796 to be precise) [because some computer somewhere says so, as if 63 trillion wouldn't be even more precise], calculated in August 2021 by the University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland.
While the day is popular in math circles [among Eggs staring at Star Wars fan fiction], it is also a day for those looking to score great deals on actual pie, pizza pie, and other circular treats. More (like a second gluten-free vegan pizza at Blaze for only $3.24 + tax)
Who cares about pi?
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Diagram of circle's diameter and perimeter |
It is also found in formulae from other topics in science, such as cosmology, fractals, thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism. It also appears in areas having little to do with [sacred] geometry, such as number theory and statistics, and in modern mathematical analysis can be defined without any reference to geometry.
The ubiquity of π makes it one of the most widely known mathematical constants inside and outside of science. Several books devoted to π have been published, and record-setting calculations of the digits of π often result in news headlines. What is it?
Definition
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Hey, I got you a bookworm cup, Babe. |
For example, if a circle has twice the diameter of another circle, it will also have twice the circumference, preserving the ratio C/d.
This definition of π implicitly makes use of flat (Euclidean) geometry; although the notion of a circle can be extended to any curve (non-Euclidean) geometry, these new circles will no longer satisfy the formula π = C/d [10]. We should have paid attention in high school instead of being so worried about makeup and dating. More
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