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Trivially Speaking: A former mathematician gets a chance to face a Pi Day

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The Battle of the Century (1927) featured a pie fight with 3,000 pies as ammunition. Mack Sennett became noted for using one or two thrown pies in many of his comedy shorts. Frank Sinatra called on the condition he get a pie in the face on his only appearance on television.

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Trivially Speaking: A former mathematician gets a chance to face a Pi Day

Just a couple weeks ago was the eighth anniversary of the (five significant digits) Pi Day, pi being 3.1416 (rounded up) and the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Having (practice) taught geometry, it brought back memories, but many of you probably never took plane geometry so you might not have known that. It’s a big deal for math folks and if I wanted to show it to 39 places I could (but not from memory). Typically…

1 month ago·Berthoud, United States

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