On π-day, one mathematician explores our fascination with pi and asks why we obsessively compute its digits
To lower the tone, the US calls today pi day because they use an irrational date format. Sorry.
333/106 gives four decimal places, but 355/113 gives six and is (for me at least) easier to remember.
I really enjoyed reading this and learned a lot, thank you! 🙂
Wonderful for me in my ignorance. Have we ever observed a perfect circle or found a perfect ratio? By the time it is measured, however instantly the measure, the perfection is vanished?
To lower the tone, the US calls today pi day because they use an irrational date format. Sorry.
333/106 gives four decimal places, but 355/113 gives six and is (for me at least) easier to remember.
I really enjoyed reading this and learned a lot, thank you! 🙂
Wonderful for me in my ignorance. Have we ever observed a perfect circle or found a perfect ratio? By the time it is measured, however instantly the measure, the perfection is vanished?