Oooo ... and next year's Pi Day will be even more accurate, huh? =)
http://pusheen.com/post/79585549237
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/14/tech/innovation/pi-day-math-celebrations/
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From the article:
"The Illinois Science Council and Fleet Feet Sports are hosting a 3.14-mile walk/run Friday night, ."
It is ironic that the state of Illinois actually introduced a bill , the notorious #246, which attempted to declare the value of π to be 3.
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/mathtext/node18.html
(from my Alma Mater, the University of Waterloo in Ontario)
"The Illinois Science Council and Fleet Feet Sports are hosting a 3.14-mile walk/run Friday night, ."
It is ironic that the state of Illinois actually introduced a bill , the notorious #246, which attempted to declare the value of π to be 3.
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/mathtext/node18.html
(from my Alma Mater, the University of Waterloo in Ontario)
Oh, no!!
Whew! Thank goodness that wasn't in my home state of Illinois! It was in my mother's home state of Indiana.
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/localgov/Topics/Essays/Pi_Bill_Indiana_1897.htm
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/localgov/Topics/Essays/Pi_Bill_Indiana_1897.htm
OOPS, good catch,
my apologies to the good people of Illinois.
my apologies to the good people of Illinois.
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