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March 14, 2022 – Pi Day!

Better late than never. Enjoy your Pi day!

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Happy Pi Day 2020

  Happy Pi Day!!! Hello math and π lovers.  Just a little celebration of the day.  To help keep and spread the wonder of π, here is a link to the Life of π collection of fabric that I am building at Spoonflower.com. … Continue reading

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Monday for Math Lovers – The ocean goes Plouffe!

The Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula is an amazing way to calculate individual digits of Pi, with out having to go through all the billions and billions of digits.

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Monday for Math Lovers – Mandelbrot at Dawn

The Mandelbrot set is mathematical set of points whose boundary is a distinctive two dimensional fractal shape, and strangely, related to Pi.

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Life of Pi Series – The Ancients

What do you think they used to calculate the plotting of the stones?

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Monday for Math Lovers – Hexadecimal Tiger

Base 16 is one of the useful tools in finding digits of Pi, but I would not want to meet it in a dark alley.

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Monday for Math Lovers – Transcendental Sea

Transcendental Pi has faced the opponent of the squared circle for centuries.

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Monday for Math Lovers – An Elegant Continued Fraction

Amazing, that a crazy number like Pi can be represented by such a beautifully patterned continued fraction, for billions and billions of decimals.

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Monday for Math Lovers – History

Pi was the tiger for Archimedes, and he faced him down, approximately.

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Monday for Math Lovers – Flying Digits

The flying fish can seem endless.

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