pi
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A Brief History Of Pi
That the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is constant has been known to humanity since ancient times; yet, even today, despite 2000 years of thought, theories, calculations and proofs, π’s precise value remains elusive.
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Why Pi Is A Stupid Number And People Are Dumb To Celebrate It
Video: Recreational mathemusician Victoria Hart — aka Vi Hart — gives overwhelming (and fun!) evidence that clearly demonstrates that Pi is a stupidly common number and the fascination of people with this number is just dumb.
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Wash Your Scotch Down With A Heaping Helping Of Pi
How many numbers of Pi can you rattle off? Probably not many. Probably even fewer if you’re drunk. But you can at least cheat with these glasses from TheUncommonGreen that are printed with hundreds and hundreds of digits from the mathematical constant.
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If You Read Pi Long Enough, You’ll Find Hamlet
It’s Pi Day! Which, OK, whatever, if you were really hardcore about celebrating you’d figure out what nanosecond corresponds to 3.14159 or whatever and pop the Moet then. But you didn’t and you won’t so whatever, right? Hang on, that doesn’t mean we can’t still have some fun with the nerdiest holiday in the land,…