I had another entry planned for today but a link to a video of how baseballs are made that Gini Cornila sent is too perfect to pass up on Pi Day. Yes it’s Pi Day, a day of nerd festivities. If you planned ahead, you’re having pie (I didn’t plan ahead and wish I had a pie). If you didn’t and need a substitute activity, you can take some brainiac quizzes instead.
I must tell you though, there is growing criticism and mounting dissent about Pi -other mathicionados make the claim that Pi is wrong -it should be Tau instead. Or so says Grace -she’s of the camp who agrees that today is half Tau day. I understand you may be dubious; more so once you know Grace described Numerical Analysis as “a really fun class”. I say we should keep a close eye on these dissenters or before you know it, we’ve lost another planet.
Speaking of baseballs, I used a pattern of one for a three part production pattern making quiz (pt.1, pt.2 & pt.3)
And now for an arbitrary, if not onerous and occasional commenting rule in honor of pi day:
Your comment must either be a piem* or it must be in haiku -our old stand by. If you can manage neither, a circuitous comment works well too.
*A piem is a pi poem, the letters of each word must match the length of each pi digit. In other words, 3.14159265358979 etc is equal to this famous example: How I need a drink, alcoholic of course after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics. If you think that is bad, you probably don’t want to read the 10,000 word piem novel called Not A Wake. Indeed.
Yes, I know a class, scholarly, of tweens, which did enjoy handmade, delicious, piquant
applelime pie at the 5thgrade this mornin’.
It seemed easy, but did confound all my efforts. Hopefully right. To complete asmuchas this I oweMister Beckett.
I finish exhausted but satisfied, gratified, and needing sleep.
Marguerite (still counting)
How I wish I awoke cognizant of worthy tau/2 day!
Tau – what a great evolution in number games …
Thank you, this film is very intresting.
Have a nice Week
Mema
Pi Day comes in March
If you know a math teacher
Buy them something Pi (see my link above)
My top holiday
Pi Day brings me some income
From my Pi designs
I don’t belong here
I only design t-shirts
But I sew at home
Still I read Kathleen
I have learned so much sewing
How to do it right
Wow ! More ! Silly wordpress is saying that’s too short.
We had pie last night
Jess, Christy, Fritz and kitties
came to eat with us.
Whether Tau or Pi
DH glared, said Grace was right
That class was so fun
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(those were all great everybody!)