Tuesday, March 20, 2012

it's Pi DAY!!!! - Cynthia Kilgore p.1

It's that day again it's finally pi day, it's hard to come up with a way to describe how important this equation is to us today. As the famous John Evans once said “What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o'-lantern by its diameter? Pumpkin π haha pi as we know it with the symbol π has only been used for a whopping 250 years...pi has much to do with circle's, the circumference of a circle can never truly be known because pi is a serious of numbers that going on almost randomly practically forever. Pi is known as  π (piwas) which is the 16th letter in the greek alphabet where p is the 16th letter in our alphabet. The first 144 digits of pi adds up to 666!!! this is known as the devils number, people like me are very fond of this analogy because math is not my strongest subject. Although today is not really pi day the official pi day started at  1:59 p.m., to because 3.14159 when combined with 3/14 makes this number. Albert Einstein's birthday is also on this important day (3/14/1879) in Ulm Wurttemberg, Germany. That's all i can say about pi today but i'm sure many fun facts will be learned in the future.

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