“So here we have π squared, which an engineer would call ‘10.’” -Frank King
This March 14th, stump your friends with these amazing facts about the world’s favorite transcendental number!
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons users TechnoGuyRob and InverseHypercube.
I've written about Pi Day twice before here on Scienceblogs, but for this year's festivities, I've assembled a collection of my favorite facts about everyone's favorite irrational but indispensible number, from history to pure mathematics to birthdays to astronomy!
Image credit: Emil Ivanov, via http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M38_LRGB.htm, and cropped by me.
So go and join our celebration of Pi day, and chime in by sharing your favorites!
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While not a correct spelling still pretty interesting.
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