I'm not a mathematical kind of gal. I did ok in math in school, but if you did a personality profile on me, I'm way more emotional than I am logical. I think you have to be logical to love math.
On March 14th, everyone loves math - ok, Pi. Today is "Pi Day". Officially, Pi is the symbol used by mathematicians to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It is the lowercase Greek letter π, sometimes spelled out as pi. I had to look that up - although I did know it had something to do with a circle, but Geometry was 32 years ago. I still know the first few digits of pi by heart (3.14159), but then I can't remember anymore.
Pi is an infinite decimal. An infinite decimal is a number where all the numbers to the right of the decimal go on for as long as some smart guy/girl has calculated the number. There are also no repeating patterns in pi. So it would seem that the numbers after the decimal are random.
There is a math teacher at the building that I used to teach at and she has her students create a paper chain of pi - where each color represents a number. The chain can circle the entire school building. Pretty cool.
By the way, is it any coincidence that the pie pastry is round? Now you know how my brain thinks...
Today I wish you the love of math, well, at least pi (pie?)
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