So today is 3/14 aka “Pi Day”. Everyone knows “Pi r round”. So what did you folks have rolling around today? Beautiful day for a ride today in CT.
Took my granddaughter for immunization shots, forgot what that was like for 4 YOs, been awhile She gained 3 pounds for all the ice cream I got her. Okay, back to your regular scheduled programming!
Hello, We drove by a Blaze Pizza store and was almost going to stop for a couple of small pizzas. They were advertised for $3.14 dollars. Ha! But, obviously, so did a thousand other pizza fanatics, especially for the low cost. Not worth the hassle to save a piddling amount. But, since we liked Blaze Pizzas and have taken out plenty of small orders in the past years, we just thought... Jnaki New pizza stores come and go. Our favorite is the exact opposite of the Blaze Pizza style. Thick crust, lots of toppings/dressings and sauce to meet our "white sauce" needs or " tomato standard" moments. But, this late stage of life, those Round Table ordinary slices have so much stuff in each slice that we are lucky to be alive, still. So, we look, but do not touch. Ha! Happy Pi day...
Bah! Pi Day is some kind of cutesy newcomer. A warm and fuzzy rewrite. Today is the Ides of March. "Et tu, Brute?"
It's got to do with math...and engineering probably uses it in its execution amongst other heady things that make stuff come together... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
A good friend of mine called pizza's Wheels... being wheels are round, it all connects in a roundabout way...that's too cool @jnaki and now I'm hungry for one... I got wood on 3/14......I'm sure PI aka 3.14 has been applied in droves in my playground...Hotrod weather is peaking back into the region...should floor jack it over open the door and fire it up for the first blast of 24...
The area of a circle is pi times the radius squared (A = π r²). pi = approximately 3.14 rounded up so...3/14 is like pi day just like 3/27 is coming up....
For we simple folks, pi (think it has a Greek origin) is usually rounded down to 3.14. Used for determining a circumference of a circle, etc. So math “nerds” celebrate it like SBC guys do with a 327 - which will be coming up soon. One thing about the Mopar guys, how come we never see a happy “3/18” day?
LOL In 1897 renegade Indiana mathematician named Edward J. Goodwin claimed to have his own, unique proof showing that the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter was 3.2, not 22/7 as had been understood since ancient times. Goodwin failed to convince other mathematicians, so instead he sought to impose the new value by legislative fiat. The bill passed the Indiana House but when it reached the Senate, a mathematician named Clarence Abiathar Waldo was on hand to lobby for more science funding. Waldo set to work educating senators about the impossibility of legislating a mathematical value. The bill died, but a legend was born.
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