Pi Day: fun with numbers: 'fixing' pi (π)

Quest for Pi solved with polygons 🥧 - 22/7=pi (3.14...) since ancient architects calculated it.

Understanding irrational numbers: pi vs. rational numbers - 

Pi as a fraction? It's possible #shorts #math - Visualization of pi being irrational

Worship the number, Kids, like in dumb religion

At UC Berkeley, my roommate Nathaniel and I used to mull over the Big Questions -- rebirth, telepathy, PSI, ultimate reality, physics, infinity, the nature of space, psychic powers, black holes, UFOs, the meaning of life, the futility of death, and the importance of birth control, in addition to debating whether reading fiction (like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) could serve any practical function. Those were the salad days, under a powerful red light in a half-mannequin lamp in otherwise very hippie digs, there was no question we would not tackle. I came at things from mysticism, literature and psychology, whereas he was the numbers man, practical engineer, and theoretical physicist.

Douglas Adams' fictional book about a Guide

He loved sports, I loved music. He did homework (problem sets) with all his free time, and I meditated at the Berkeley Zen Center and more or less gazed at my navel the rest of the time. He was much smarter, but I got better grades. We were in school to be schooled and went on to grad school to continue the cat and mouse, chasing GPAs and glory of a most trivial and nerdy sort. Because what college really gives a person of privilege is the leisure to think, philosophize, question, debate, foster intellectual creativity, and expand. How sad that so many people spend it drinking or doing all the things they missed out in high school from having to study so much to get into a place like Cal, Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, or Yale in the first place. We were sober for our discussions.

If only I had done more math, if only he had taken a real philosophy class (instead of accidentally landing himself in a course on logic), what might have been? We'd be two doctors having this debate:

• Natty, my good man, let me propose a problem for analysis.
• Yeah-yeah, Dawg, wassup?
• As you are a privileged white male in our society, having undertaken a full and rigorous course of mathematics up to and including calculus, I have a thought experiment for you.
• Aw, Man, drop that b*tch, and let's hear it.
• Would you mind, Friend, dispensing with the urban diction?
  
• The whuh?
• The Ebonics or whatever manner of slang you're currently employing.
• Say whut, Nugs? I be talkin' like I always be talkin! Word!
• You never talk like this! Anyway, if it's what you prefer, it's just that you're making a mockery of these proceedings.
• Ahh, yeah, lemme git da redlight! Sounds like an all nighter to wax on 'bout.
• Here it is. I say pi (π, 3.14159...) is stupid because it is, as you say, "irrational." I want it to be rational rather than go on forever. And I think I thought up a way to do it.
• Do whut, Dawg?
• Get it to end, get it to be rational, get it to divide cleanly (without remainder), get all the measurements in order, from say a perspicacious, anal, or OCD drive in me to make better pyramids, architecture, and other low-to-no margin of error constructions by making the calculations in the blueprints better.
• "Better"?
• They'll be better in that they come out without infinite remainders of trailing digits beyond the decimal point.
• No need, my Brutha.
• This has never been about a need. This is pure science with no (apparent) application, research for its own sake, and you're just the man to do. Take this back to your professors and put it to them. They may see the wisdom of such a pursuit in building, calculating, and approaching the verities of life in a perfect simulation/world.
• Pi can'ts bee evenly divided; it stays irrational.
• I know. But I have a way to evenly divide it and make it rational, that is, to turn it from an odd number to an even number.
• Ain't gonna happen, Bruh.
• That's what the purpose of this thought experiment is! I'm going to make it happen. See if you don't agree, as my mind is not bogged down with all the math knowledge, rules acceptance, and numerical assumptions you labor under, I think I'm onto something. It's very easy in theory. How it would be proven, that I leave up to you. I'm the visionary madman making a creature. You are a white lab coat wearing functionary in this thought lab.
• STEP 1: Switch from Base 10 to another base, such as Base 11 (or 13, 22, 7, 28, 60, 364, or 365). We'll start with those first.
• STEP 2: Calculate pi. I bet it will break even without all those digits after the decimal.
• Aww, ai don't think it'll work, Dawg, ai'ight?
• STEP 3: Keep plugging in different bases until it does work.
• Whut's da use? If it ain't workin, how's swtichin gonna work it?
• I suggest we try Base 11.5 or Base 5. Then Base 10.66 or 10.67. See Base 10 is even, and I think that's the fundamental problem, so let's switch to an odd base.
• "Odd base"?
• Yes, something that is not even like 10.
• Ya may be onto sumthin.
• I know. And I need you to prove it. Otherwise, I'm going to have to resort to Mathletics, AI, Chat GPT, Grok, and other demonic entities to work it out. And you know they can't, for all they can do is tell me what a genius I am and how I just invented a new math system, and all that other back patting and feelgood replying they do to sincere saps who resort to such compliments when, in fact, they need pushback.
• I ain't sure Texas Instruments calculators can handle this job cuz, internally, they might be juzz as jacked as math books in publik schoolz, ya hear?
• Yeah, I hear. We may have to use a computer or supercomputer for this one. Doesn't your physics class have a lab with just such a program or IBM, Apple, or Hewlett Packard device?  

Supporting mixed-level math learning: Mathletics success story from elementary

(Kristina Gobetti, Feb. 19th, 2026) Categories: Educators

Int'l Day of Women and Girls in Science

In classrooms where students read at different levels, teaching math becomes a double challenge: helping students understand both the mathematics and the questions [word problems] themselves.

Teaching a split class in rural Alberta, Canada, Jennifer Doherty at Alder Flats Elementary School needed a program flexible enough to support all her students.

She found that solution in Mathletics, an online math program for schools that has become an essential tool for building numeracy [the number version of literacy] skills and confidence. Watch Doherty explain how Mathletics works in her classroom every day, from audio support to clear progress reporting. More

Is Pi rational? Not by this definition

Connecting the dots 2025 (standup comedy)

(Sammy Obeid) Connecting the Dots of 2025 | stand up comedy

Is that Trump redacted (blacked out) in hot tub at Epstein's with Bubba?

Russia's Putin has photos of Trump "blowing" Bill "Bubba" Clinton

Trash: Encounters with Ghislaine: Mossad horse?

Path to Nirvana; WQ reaches milestone

Here, Johnson poses at the opening green carpet for the 21st Zurich Film Festival on Sept. 25, 2025, in Zurich, Switzerland (Andreas Rentz, Getty Images for ZFF)

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Dakota Johnson was a vision in blue at the Zurich Film Festival, and her jaw-dropping, see-through Gucci gown stole the spotlight. Johnson was on stage at the screening of her latest film, "Splitsville," at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival on Sept. 25, 2025, in Zurich, Switzerland. Artistic Director of the ZFF Christian Jungen awarded Johnson the Golden Eye Award during the screening. More:

• Dakota Johnson's sheer Gucci gown stuns at Zurich Film Festival | USA Today
• ZFF: Dakota Johnson and other stars at festival opening

Blue is the color, invisible to the ancients

Blue is the color. It represents a kind of cosmic intelligence or wisdom, to the extent any color (rate of vibration or frequency) can convey resonance or a mood. The seven main chakras (energy nexuses or "wheels") along the spine represent the aspirations of humans.

We go from the base (muladhara) with our coiled energy waiting to be expressed, where we ground ourselves, aspiring upwards to release (spiritual liberation) at the crown chakra. They are called wheels because they are turning, guiding kundalini energy upward.

Milestone

What the students wrote

What is the milestone? It is another tremendous mass of views. Without realizing it, Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal crossed yet another big tick on the ticker. With each such bundle of hits or views, most of them taking place in just the past month, we are filled with gratitude for our enlightened teacher and his successful American student (to preserve her privacy, let's call her Kalyani, the noble friend), who are inspirations that we, too, can attain such things as are described in the Buddhist texts, particularly the Abhidhamma preserved and made practical in little known Burmese Theravada tradition of the great Pa Auk Sayadaw. (All forms of Buddhism may be beautiful and exotic, counterintuitive and koan-like, but how many produce enlightenment and liberation, bodhi and nirvana, in this very life?) However, in our worldly foolishness, we tend to intellectualize everything. And for that we have our root teacher, American JuBu Bhikkhu Bodhi (BAUS.org).

What is the Path to Enlightenment?

Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Seven energy-wheels or chakras of the body

The "path" (Pali magga, Sanskrit marga) may be summarized in many ways. Because Buddhism as recorded in ancient, memorized recitations (the oral tradition of proto-India before most people read and wrote), there are lists. So it's fun to play with them so long as one knows the map is not the terrain, only an indicator along the way. If only ONE thing were needed to awaken to enlightenment (bodhi), that

1. one thing would be insight (wisdom, direct knowing-and-seeing, panna, Sanskrit prajna).
2. If the list had two things: Serenity (jhanas) and Mindfulness (satipatthana) producing liberating wisdom.
3. Three things: Compassion, Tranquility, and Mindful Attention to the Four Foundations.
4. Four things: The Four Ennobling Truths. ("Noble" = Aryan = "Enlightening").
5. Five things: Finding a suitable teacher, giving ear, mental attention, applying oneself, and perseverance until success.
6. Six things: Sitting, calming, absorption (jhana), emerging, and immediately mindfully placing attention on phenomena (ultimate mentality and materiality, discerning cittas and kalapas), and reflecting.
7. Seven things: The Seven Factors of Enlightenment.
8. Eight things: The Ennobling Eightfold Path....
9. Thirty-seven things: (The Seven Requisites of Enlightenment or the bodhipakkhiyādhammā, all the key things, or dhamma, the historical Buddha taught pertaining to awakening that leads to knowing nirvana).

• USA Today; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Short Attn Span Theater: April Fools pranks

April Fools prank Denmark, Copenhagen subway (in reality retired car from Stockholm subway)

Annual "Washing of the Lions," April 1, 1857

April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day [1]) is an annual custom on the first of April, consisting of pranks, practical jokes, and hoaxes.

Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. The corporate mass media (and even serious spiritual journals) can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day.

The custom of setting aside a day for playing harmless pranks upon our neighbors has been common in the world historically [2].

The Onion buys Alex Jones' InfoWars.com

• (InfoWars) LIVE Liberation Day (April 2) Coverage: Markets surge ahead of Trump tariff announcements, Elon Musk considers closing DOGE as Russia warns of TOTAL disaster if US attacks Iran! Plus, SpaceX completes first human orbit of Planet Earth’s poles! This is a must-watch/share live broadcast

Jimmy Kimmel PRANK livestream

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) April Fool's Day: our favorite pranks - Jimmy Kimmel LiveSTREAM!

Origins of April Fools' Day

The Fool Tarot Card meaning (edelwyn.com)

Although many theories have been proposed, the origin of April Fools' Day is not exactly known.

A disputed association between April 1st and foolishness is in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (1392) [3]. In the "Nun's Priest's Tale," a vain cock, Chauntecleer, is tricked by a fox "Since March began, full thirty days and two" [4, 5], that is, the 32nd day from March 1st, which is April 1st [6]. However, it is not clear that Chaucer was referencing April 1st since...

In 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval referred to a poisson d'avril (April fool but literally "April's fish"), possibly the first reference to the celebration in France [9].

Some historians suggest that April Fools' originated because, in the Middle Ages, New Year's Day was celebrated on March 25 in most European towns [10], with a holiday that in some areas of France, specifically, ended on April 1 [11, 12], and those who celebrated New Year's Day on January 1 made fun of those who celebrated on other dates by the invention of April Fools' Day [13].

The use of January 1 as New Year's Day became common in France only in the mid-16th century [8], and that date was not adopted officially until 1564, by the Edict of Roussillon, as called for during the Council of Trent in 1563 [14].

However, there are issues with this theory because there is an unambiguous reference to April Fools' Day in a 1561 poem by Flemish poet Eduard de Dene of a nobleman who sent his servant on foolish errands on April 1st, predating the change [8].

April Fools' Day was also an established tradition in Great Britain before January 1 was established as the start of the calendar year [15, 16]. More: April Fools' Day

AI is used to make porn unrelated to video short

• April Fools video; Jimmy Kimmel Live, April Fool's Day, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

It's Pie Day, Friday (3.14)

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

Kaley "Penny" Cuoco is why people watch this show, right, not funny Sheldon?

• PI DAY - March 14, 2025 - National Today
• We did it all for the Penny and the nookie

Pi Day Friday

It's spelled Scarlett, Mr. Jost!

March 14 is commonly referred to as Pi Day, a day that aims to celebrate the ratio of the circumference of a circle [Eggheadspeak for a way of measuring the space inside a wheel.]. The number is known as 3.14 or π and can actually go on forever [or be stopped if we change to Base 3 or something other than Base 10, but numbers are all Greek, so who knows?]

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?

Diagram of circle's diameter and perimeter

Because it relates to a circle, π is found in many formulae in trigonometry and geometry, especially those concerning circles, ellipses and spheres.

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

Hey, I got you a bookworm cup, Babe.

The circumference (perimeter) of a circle is slightly more than three times as long as its diameter. The exact ratio is called π. This pi (π) is commonly defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference C to its diameter d: π = C/d. The ratio C/d is "constant," regardless of the circle's size.

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

Math Goddess: 'Man Who Knew Infinity'

Tridevi: Sarasvati, Lakshmi (aka Namagiri Thayar), and Parvati (Divine Feminine)

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The Man Who Knew Infinity (Free w/ads PG-13)

(YouTube Movies & TV) Based on a true story, Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel star in this inspirational film about an obscure Indian mathematician whose groundbreaking theories changed mathematics forever.

The Goddess told me these secrets.

• If the genius author (the modern rishi Srinivasa Ramanujan) is to be taken at his word, it is not his genius but that of his Hindu Goddess Namagiri Thayar who imparted pure math knowledge and insights. She is said to be an avatar or incarnation of Lakshmi Narayana, though the titular goddess of knowledge and learning in the Hindu pantheon is said to be the great Saraswati (who together with Parvati and Lakshmi form a trinity known as Tridevi).

Indian math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar[a] (Dec. 22, 1887–April 26, 1920) was an Indian mathematician often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He had almost no formal training in pure mathematics. Yet, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation. According to Hans Eysenck, "he tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to show them was too novel, too unfamiliar, and additionally presented in unusual ways; they could not be bothered." More

• The Man Who Knew Infinity is a 2015 British biographical dramatic film about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel. The film stars Dev Patel as the real-life mathematician who, after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to England's Cambridge University during World War I, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy, portrayed by Jeremy Irons.
• [The Westernized] history of mathematics
• Why when I search best mathematicians, it's always Europeans and maybe one or two Indians or Persians? Ethnocentrism?
• Indian mathematics
• Jantar Mantar, New Delhi
• Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world

Sexy violent TV; Are Americans dumb?

Top 10 hottest 'Get Smart' girls

(Hughesovski) After a lot of feedback, it was decided to do an update. Feel it's important to keep the original Top 10 with some honorable mentions. Thanks. Anyone who remembers Captain Gadget probably doesn't know that the Saturday morning cartoon was based on the violent comedy stylings of Control's Agent 86 Maxwell Smart on Get Smart in a Cold War back-and-forth with Kaos. RIP: Lynn Borden (1937-2015), Angelique Pettyjohn (1943-1992), Lyn Peters (1941-2013), Karen Steele (1931-1988).

How America got so st*pid

(BritMonkey) Why American culture became everything, everywhere, all at once -- it's called hegemony.

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• Patreon: britmonkey. Merch: crowdmade.com/collections/britm...
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Wisdom Quarterly hits another million views

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The world has four problems and just four. What are they? They are greed, hatred/fear, and delusion. In the hopes of reducing delusion -- manifesting as wrong views, ignorance, nescience, and foolishness -- we work at Wisdom Quarterly.

Does it help? Who knows? It may be making things worse. But if a person becomes interested in the Dharma, then that is our dhamma-dana and it's the best medicine, sometimes slow to show its good effects from not being practiced enough. When practiced, then it is of immediate effect.

For instance, what is the cure for confusion and delusion? It is mindfulness (sati). The moment one remembers to be mindful, confusion stops. When hate or fear (dosa or bhava, aversion, annoyance, anger, animosity, revulsion) arises, the immediate cure is agape (metta, loving-kindness, compassion/wish to alleviate, nonharming). When greed (lobha, attraction, liking, lust, grasping, clinging) arises, the immediate cure is letting go (nekkhamma, which can be done by looking on mindfully at the thing until its true nature reveals itself, e.g., the repulsive or asubha nature of the body, the downside, the danger, the hook in the lure, the unsatisfactory and disappointing or inability for things we chase after to ever fulfill us).

Every additional million views, we show a kind a photo. It's dumb, it's juvenile, but we do it. This million came quickly while in the midst of the greatest month of views ever, thousands more than a quarter million. Among Buddhist websites, that must be something, right?

• Hughesovski, June 3, 2017; BritMonkey) Aug. 1, 2023; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Secrets to change perspective on life

Ancient Sumerian secrets will change perspective on life

(Video Advice) Summer 2024: This Tablet Holds the Truth About Humanity. Eric Rankin, a renowned expert in the field, guides us through the intricate connections between sound frequencies and geometric patterns, revealing how these elements form the very matrix of reality.

The universe looks like this diagram: mandala

Discover how ancient knowledge and modern science converge in Sonic Geometry, offering insights into the fundamental structures of the universe. Rankin's compelling presentation not only explains the theoretical foundations but also demonstrates the practical implications of these patterns in our understanding of reality.

• The audio excerpt is from an interview with Eric Rankin by The Inside Edge Foundation. Watch the full presentation: • Sonic Geometry with Eric Rankin
• This strange metal wants to hurt us
• This girl is a genius: tying knots

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• Eric Rankan (Video Advice, Aug. 12, 2024; Dhr. Seven and Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly