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.

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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

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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

Stones, Ancient Angel Aliens, ET Hindu Math

The most mysterious theories in mathematics | Ancient Aliens

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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 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

Anniversary of Einstein's theory of relativity

I'd rather be happy than right any day! - And are you? - No, that's where it all falls down of course

Did Alvie Einstein really say Buddhism is the best religion for modern needs? It is said he did.

How to put the genie back?

Is the theory of relativity true? Probably not, but the Suburban Lawns seem to think so, and that's all that really matters. If it helped some scientists do some scientificky things and work out some assumptions with numbers, all the better. No one can deny Albert gets credit for E=MC2, part of his equation for making mountains out of molehills. Why if it were not for him, how could we have built nuclear bombs to drop on Zen Buddhists in Japan, at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and threaten the world ever since? Sure, he regretted it, but that's pure research for ya, never thinking of consequences. At least he had a social conscience and sense of humor. The US Department of War has to take most of the responsibility.

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Actor claims that his new theory of everything improves physics

I will wrestle the poo out of you, Terry

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Einstein errs, gravity pushes, math sucks

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O, Buddha, how does the universe work, and can I figure it out with math to make bombs?

"If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism."

What's AI doing? The Buddha on consciousness

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Did the Buddha say what "consciousness" is?

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

When one sees Dependent Origination, one sees

That's practically all he talked about. Buddhas teach to awaken others, to bring them out of delusion and suffering. The ultimate cause of all suffering is ignorance (avijja, avidya), delusion, wrong view, misguided perception.

Therefore, the problem becomes how to overcome these. It is a matter of dehypnotizing living beings so they can see what is real and what is not.

It is the unique teaching of Buddhism that all things are impersonal. And that of all impersonal things, the most important are the five that are clung to as a "self."

That there is a self is not something we ever question. We completely take that for granted, like we take our environment for granted, not even noticing it until something goes wrong ecologically.

You live in WATER, Dummy! Stop trying to fly!

In this regard, there is a wise saying: "I don't know who discovered water, but you can bet it wasn't a fish." Fish, being so close to it, would never notice and discover something so fundamental to their existence.

In the same way, living beings do not spontaneously start to notice that everything is impersonal, the key to enlightenment. It takes a supremely awakened teacher or samma sam buddha to do that. What is clung to as "self"?

1. Form (body)
2. Feelings (sensations)
3. Perceptions
4. Mental formations
5. Consciousness

Authors: Sayalay Susila and Dhr. Seven

It is this fifth one that most people, when pressed, would say the "real self," the "higher self," the "true self," the other four phenomena being important but dispensable. Of course, all five come together, functionally integrated and interdependent.

The key to enlightenment in this very life is twofold, knowing-and-seeing ultimate materiality and ultimate mentality. That is the key to insight. Without it we will not let go to what is not ours.

It is this very question at the root of the issue: What is consciousness? We must know it. But first the mind/heart is too weak, polluted, distorted, covered in a distorting film ("dust" or grime on the lens of the third eye, as it were).

So the first thing before anything is a path of purification. Buddhaghosa's famous manual of Buddhist meditation techniques adopted this title exactly because we must first clean the very instrument that is going to attempt to make sense of reality. For that, samma samadhi is needed, "right stillness."

That begins with serenity, tranquility, calm, and undistractedness, that is, the cognitive strength to focus, advert, apply attention to what we are attending to and disregard what is not useful to pursue (namely, the constant distractions we are bombarded with).

Only then can we hope to understand consciousness. It is essential to know and see it by direct experience. But that is not the only way to know it. We can also comprehend it intellectually, for all the good it will do us. Without direct penetration, it cannot be expected to have the proper impact for which the Buddha taught.

The Buddha is not a theoretician. He is supremely practical as to what is possible and what is not, what is profitable, suitable, skillful, worth pursuing because he knows the highest goal. He teaches for the sake of higher rebirth but, ultimately, for the overcoming of all rebirth.

Most people are not interested in that and so only pursue the Dharma for the lowly goal of being reborn in more fortunate circumstances. That is possible, that is doable, that is the highest most will reach for, so good enough.

Buddhist monastics really meditate.

But for the others really following the Buddha's advice, only enlightenment (seeing for themselves) will do. Since we are not doing that, that goal remains for people who become monastics even temporarily or who undertake meditation retreats with teachers who can teach that (and they do exist, though they are extremely rare. All may speak in these terms, with a fraction of a percentage of them actually being able to produce results).

Therefore, intellectually, consciousness is a stream of mind-moments (cittas) carrying out their function and perishing. It is important to be able to distinguish them.

Interestingly, although it is said that there are Five Aggregates clung to as self, there are actually eight. The first four are subsumed into the first one, form (rupa). The other four constitute "mind" (nama) or manas or vinnana or consciousness, awareness, knowing.

• Here's an interesting thing few seem to realize: Why are the Five Aggregates (Pancha Khandha) called "aggregates"? Is it because there are five of them? No. It is because there are an endless number of them lumped into five categories or "heaps." When one says "consciousness," one is not talking about one thing, one consciousness, but an endless stream of them. What are the "them" that constitute consciousness? They called cittas and cetasikas, mind-moments and the concomitants of consciousness. Similarly, when one speaks of "form," it is never one thing. Materiality consists of kalapas or countless perishing "particles" of various kinds, but all matter has four qualities. These, confusingly, are called the Four Great Elements (earth, wind, fire, water, an ancient categorization the Buddha employed in a much more detailed way, referring to solidity, fluidity, cohesion, temperature, etc. for at least a dozen qualities; see Four Elements Meditation for the practical upshot of how to distinguish them and, moreover, know-and-see them directly). They are actually four characteristics of matter in varying quantities. Most confusing on the list is this mysterious category of "mental formations." It is very nondescriptive because, in fact, Aggregates 2-5 are all mental formations. It is just that they are important enough to distinguish them separately. There are 50 mental formations, the most important of which are impulses or volitions, which sometimes gives the name to the entire grouping.
• About "consciousness": SN 25.3: Viññāṇa Sutta—Ven. Sujato (trans.) suttacentral.net

Did the Buddha define consciousness? That's practically all he did, as seen in the Abhidharma ("The Dharma in Ultimate Terms") literature. Did he know consciousness? Indeed. That's what made him the Buddha, "the Awakened One" capable of awakening others.

• So what is consciousness then? The Buddha compared it to a conjurer's magic trick. It's empty (impersonal).