PI day
Mar 17th, 2007 by Mr Geekdates
Pi. I remember having a fight in the projects area of my classroom when I was around 6 or 7 with a guy named Colin because he wouldn’t accept that Pi existed. We’d just spent an hour measuring the various parts of a circle, with our teacher telling us to think of the circles as pies because Pi was what it was all about.
Colin decided that not only was Pi not a constant (because it MUST be bigger if the circle is bigger - it’s obvious), but that even if it was there’s no way his calculator couldn’t work it out. I seem to recall a few years later he was equally annoying about half lifes.
Anyway. We’re planning a geek date for the next Pi day, all having been too busy working to do anything on the 14th March. So July 22nd it is. Tell us your plans. It’s nice to have a european format geekdate from time to time. Shows everyone is sophisticated and worldly. The only appropriate way to celebrate is to eat some pie. The finest pie in the UK is available from the Royal Mile Tavern in Edinburgh. A glorious old fashioned shortcrust steak and Guinness pie of extraordinary flavour. So that’s venue option #1 for the Scottish contingent.
Oh, in case your mental arithmatic isn’t that quick, 22/7 is an approximation of Pi from the old days.