Happy Pi Day!

[embe11ished]

First, I want to wish everyone a very Happy Pi Day! Go forth and celebrate mathematics wherever you find it. (I am bringing pie to my Calc class today, which will hopefully encourage them to speak up. They are a very quiet group of students.)

Also, 7veilsphaedra posted electronically generated haiku, and she got me hooked. These don't hang together like Phae's

Comments

[rainpuddle13]

*sneers at math*

Pi day puhleez.

[embe11ished]

*Gasps* How dare you defame Pi Day?! Maybe I should insult your job. Though come to think of it, what would I say? "Books suck"? "Gee, I was never good at reading?" Maybe not. Well, even if you don't truly appreciate the day, at least I get to eat pie!

[embe11ished]

Wow! A non-mathematician that celebrates Pi Day. That's quite impressive! My opinion of you just skyrocketed! (Not that it was low before this, or anything!)

[carrie_leigh]

Your Haikus are rather elegant, I think!

And happy Pi day. I don't believe I've ever celebrated mathematics before, and I don't know that I've encountered any today, but I will give it a round of applause if I do. You have a great day!

[embe11ished]

The day has been rather good so far. Any excuse to eat pie, right? And I'm sure that you did encounter some mathematics today, it might just have been hidden. For example, if you listened to music at all, the device you played it on probably uses mathematics to make the sound clear. Or if you bought something with a UPC code, mathematics is used to make sure the code is read correctly. Or... Okay, maybe I'll stop there.

[crazy_lil_loud1]

Pi Day!
I never knew exactly when that was- but it makes perfect sense that it is on March 14th... I am just slow.
My math teacher cracks me up. Her wall paper is all the numbers that are in Pi. It starts up at the corner with Pi = 3.14 and it just goes all the way down her wall. *giggles*

[embe11ished]

My husband occasionally works at a math camp for high school students, and once there was a cheerleading camp going on at the same time. One of the math students was reciting digits of pi, and a cheerleader exclaimed, "He knows the whole thing!" She clearly missed the point about it being an infinite decimal expansion with no patterns. But I bet your teacher gets an awful lot of those digits on a whole wall! Has she tried to memorize them?

[crazy_lil_loud1]

*giggle*
Cheerleaders. *sigh* God bless them.

No, I don't think she memorized them. I think she knows up to around the 5th digit after the decimal place-- but I don't know.

[embe11ished]

That's about how much of it I know! Of course, I have a rotten memory, so that might have something to do with it. :)

[7veilsphaedra]

Ooh, I like your haiku very much. One and three are quite tidy. Number two is In Vino Veritas in a nutshell.

Happy Pi day to you too. That explains the mysterious e-card which Hannah sent me this morning, "If we were floating in a life-raft, I wouldn't be Pi." I thought she'd gone barking.

[embe11ished]

She might have gone barking, but not for referring to Pi today. Though I might be going barking as well. I seem to be missing the joke in what she sent you. Oh well.

I liked the haiku too. Thanks for posting them!

[7veilsphaedra]

Do you remember how I wanted to send you a Christmas present of some of my favourite music recordings? It never happened because, firstly, I bought DVD discs instead of CDs *whacks forehead*, and secondly, I don't know how to burn the stupid things in either case.

Well, slowly, slowly, slowly, like the silly tortoise, I'm getting a smidgeon of an iota of a hang of this technology thing, and I just learned how to upload music files directly onto sendspace. So, the music I promised you can be found by clicking on these following links. *Crosses fingers in hopes that they work*

Kiri Te Kanawa, Handel, Let The Bright Seraphim

J. S. Bach, 16 Cantata No. 314 Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! Leipzig University Chorus, New Leipzig Bach Collegium Musicum

[embe11ished]

Thank you! This may be a stupid question, but how do I get to them? Do I need to sign up for Sendspace to get access?

Thanks also for clarifying the joke. I haven't read "The Life of Pi" yet, or maybe I would have figured it out.