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Too cool.... Now if my math feeble brain just knew what Pi actually was<g> a
really big number???? LOL But I like the way you celebrate David.... We may
just adopt Pi day... it comes at a good time of the year for a little
celebration here in the Pacific north west!
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Pi is 3.14 etc, etc, etc. It actually keeps going forever without a
repeating pattern of numbers or anything. You use it in circles a lot. 2
times Pi times the radius = the circumference of the circle. Pi x radius
squared = the area of the circle.
A good looking Pi Day site is

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/pi/

Karen, (with Helen, 7, Agent of Chaos, and Gordon, 4, Agent of Destruction)

Tracy Bobsin

What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-0-lantern by its
diameter?











pumpkin pi

Happy Pi Day!!
Tracy

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In a message dated 03/14/2000 4:15:16 AM !!!First Boot!!!, cunian@...
writes:

<<
Pi is 3.14 etc, etc, etc. It actually keeps going forever without a
repeating pattern of numbers or anything. You use it in circles a lot. 2
times Pi times the radius = the circumference of the circle. Pi x radius
squared = the area of the circle. >>


Thanks everyone for this heads up! My son says he wants to celebrate by
making whipped cream pies and throwing them at each other. Sounds like
backyard time to me!!!!

Nance

David Albert

Linda - can you send us the link on the songs?

thanks!

david

Linda Wyatt wrote:

> From: Linda Wyatt <hilinda@...>
>
> > From: David Albert <shantinik@...>
> >
> > In case I forget, I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone
> > for tomorrow a Happy Pi Day! (March 14, 3-14) We celebrate by eating
> > various kinds of pie all day, and with math problems and puzzles, and
> > an occasional toast to Pythagoras
> > and Archimedes. One of our favorite holidays!
>
> One of our favorites, too!
>
> We make square pies (because Pi r squared!).
>
> Found out just the other day that the King Sized bag of plain M&Ms comes in
> packages weighing 3.14 ounces. :-)
>
> We found some Pi Day songs on the web.
>
> We've been doing this for about 4 years now.
>
> Linda
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> From: David Albert <shantinik@...>
>
> Linda - can you send us the link on the songs?

Pi Day songs: http://www.winternet.com/~mchristi/piday.html


Another idea I saw that I'd do if I had the time to get the stuff (maybe
next year, or maybe next week, why wait?) is to make strings of beads to
represent the digits of Pi, using the same color code as on resistors (in
electronics).

For anyone who has lots of beads and might want to do it:

black brown red orange yellow green blue purple gray white
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9



And, the first 240 digits of Pi:

3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944
5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647
0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559
6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165

that should be enough :-)



Linda (I need a Pi Hat!!)