I love pie. And I know I’m not the only one. Jealousy is the most common response I get when I explain our family’s tradition of waking up to a pumpkin pie breakfast on Thanksgiving morning. Yum. Pumpkin Pie. Lemon Meringue Pie. Raspberry Pie. Apple Pie. Strawberry Rhubarb Pie. Chocolate Pie. I really love all pie…sans mince meat; sorry Dad. I just don’t understand what exactly it’s made of—it makes me nervous.
Fact: Every 5 minutes one in four people is currently eating, preparing to eat or thinking of eating pie.
Fact: 9 out of 10 people would rather eat pie than brush their teeth.
Fact: Astronauts and Cosmonauts won’t go to space without pie http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/atlantis/11-16/index.html
So you can imagine my joy today (3.14) when my love of pie intersects with my love of pi. The irrational, never repeating, wonder-number that represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. My love of pi started in 10th grade Geometry when Mr. Crack offered me extra credit if I could memorize pi to its 25th decimal place. A few days later he gave me a chunk of chalk and stood back surprised as I quickly jotted down pi to the 49th decimal.
49?! you ask? Yep, 49. And it was easy, here’s how:
Fact: telephone numbers are in groups of 7 (except for in the
Fact: I had seven friends in high school. (Who knew I was so popular!)
Fact: I simply assigned a set of 7 numbers to each friend
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375…
3 + 1 + 4 = (20 x 0) + 8
CRACK-O!
Happy Pi Day!
6 comments:
LOVE IT!! Happy Pi(e) Day to you too!!! I have a delicious Dutch Apple Pie made by Marie Calendar in my freezer! Sounds like the perfect way to celebrate this day! :)
I love pie. I don't love math however. Today I am eating these chocolate pinwheel cookies. They are round like pie. In school math was the bane of my existence, but not the worst. Physical education was the worst. I am more of a word girl, in any language. Chocolate pinwheels, like pie are so good. Words are good too. Pi(e) also has its place.
mmmm......pie
uggghhhh ... pi.
That's all I have to say about it.
Dad and I just read this and we are laughing. It is really so clever, so clever. Wish Mr. Crack could see it.
Karen! You had me falling off my computer chair when I read it yesterday, I had to read it again today just to have another chuckle. Beware the Ides of March!
(3/1)+5=(20*0)+8
CRACKO!!!!
ok, what ever. I love Pie also, I dont understand Pi,sorry. I came across your moms blog and so am visting all you guys/girls. Hi from the past. Kelli (young) Hanis, come visit my blog anytime.
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