My girlfriend is student teaching and taking her fourth grade class to the museum for pi day. Yesterday, one of her students (the worst behaving one w/ the most hands off parents) said her mom was coming for the field trip..
Her mom didn't want to miss free pie!
My girlfriend then finds out the entire class thinks they're going for pie day!
'It is named after physicist Richard Feynman, who once stated during a lecture he would like to memorize the digits of π until that point, so he could recite them and quip "nine nine nine nine nine nine and so on."'
Over the past month or so, I did exactly that.
Thanks for the article! It gave me a great Pi Day goal.
Great movie! I'm a big fan of the director Darren Aronofsky, I would recommend his other works Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain if you haven't seen them.
Be sure to not have any sharp objects, guns, bottles of narcotics, or any other way to kill yourself around after watching Requiem if you haven't seen it yet.
In fact, you might want to go ahead and buy a kitten and call someone to tell them you'll need them to come over for a big hug in about two hours right after you pop that DVD in.
A couple of years back, when my son turned 3.1415 year's old, I had a Pi-day party for him! Adding to the confusion, I went to the local grocery store and bought everything that had the word pie in it: apple, peach, pizza, spinach...
the lesson i take from the results is if all you're doing is calling a C library (gmp) anyway, it doesn't really matter whether you're using C or Python.
