Pie – Philip Nel

Nine More Kinds of Pi: Happy Pi Day 2015!

Since this blog takes its name from an artist who wrote about pie and painted π (see last year’s post), I try to offer a little tribute to this beloved irrational number each Pi Day. Today, at 9:26:53 am and pm (twice!), the date will spell out the first ten digits of the number. Well,

Nine Kinds of Pie

March 14, 2014Philip NelBlog, Crockett Johnson, Edward Lear, Math, Nonsense, Numbers, PieBlog, Crockett Johnson, Edward Lear, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Math, Nonsense, Numbers, Pie3 Comments

Happy Pi Day! In recognition of 3.14 (today) and this blog’s Pi pie avatar (logo?), here are Nine Kinds of Pie (loosely defined). 1. The ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter: 3.1415926535. When I was a kid, I memorized the number out to its tenth decimal point. On a long strip of paper,