Happy Pi Day (3.14)! I’m going to have a berry cobbler for dessert tonight, which, while technically not pie, is my favorite and close enough, even if it is a rectangle. This is a video of some folks visually demonstrating pi using the pizza crust from one pizza and four other pizzas. As is deliciously shown in the video, pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, meaning a circle’s circumference is always 3.14 times its diameter, or could stretch across the diameter of 3.14 equally sized circles. You learn something new every day! And, is often the case for me, something I had previously learned but long forgotten. Geometry — what was that, 10th grade? I went to the homecoming dance stag and left stag, but with a bloody nose for trying to cut-in on a girl I had a crush on. “You got punched?!” No, I just get nervous nose bleeds. I never even worked up the guts to cut.
With Pi Day just around the corner, let’s remember what Pi is all about.
After washing your hands thoroughly, cut the crust off a pizza pie and lay it across four others. You’ll see that the crust spans a little more than 3 pies. That’s Pi ≈ 3.14.
But that’s not all! (Cont’d) pic.twitter.com/xTVbObrPzH
— Alex Kontorovich (@AlexKontorovich) March 6, 2020
