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SUNY?Fredonia algebraic administration celebrates circle
March 14, 2011 - By JENNA LOUGHLIN, OBSERVER Assistant News Editor
Happy Pi Day!
For algebraic geeks everywhere, March 14 represents the approximated amount of the algebraic symbol, pi, - arresting 'pie' - or 3.14. Pi is the ambit of any circle, disconnected by its diameter. The exact amount of pi charcoal alien because no amount how abounding places accomplished the decimal is calculated, a butt still exists.
The algebraic administration began adulatory the honorary anniversary 11 years ago with pie throwing contests and the accident has developed every year.
"It's a anniversary of mathematics, a anniversary of the advancing of bounce and a anniversary of authoritative it center through the additional semester," Dr. Keary Howard, assistant of mathematics apprenticeship at SUNY Fredonia, said.
It is the role of the mathematics alum acceptance to adapt beat and appropriately their job to appear up with a affair for Pi Day at Fredonia State. This year, the affair was Pi Academy Prom, a comedy on aerial academy prom.
Those accommodating in Pi Day activities were accustomed added credibility for cutting brawl attire, authoritative Pi Academy Brawl T-shirts, bringing in a photograph of their own aerial academy brawl account or bringing in a pre-1990s brawl account of their parents or grandparents.
Because March 14 avalanche during SUNY Fredonia's bounce breach this year, the anniversary took abode on Thursday, the aftermost day afore the campus bankrupt bottomward for the break. Starting at noon, participants spent the day on a scavenger hunt, attractive for all things pi accompanying - a barcode that has as abounding afterwards digits from pi, affidavit of a corpuscle buzz alarm or argument bulletin at 3:14 p.m., a being whose altogether is March 14, a cancellation that has afterwards digits from pi, one to three best brawl songs from 1970-1990 with "PI" consecutively in the appellation or band/artist's name, a authorization bowl with 314 or PI on it and more.
Then, starting at 6:15, the brawl began, complete with a airship arc and refreshments. However, the algebraic fun had alone aloof begun. The 11 teams aggressive for the Pi Cup, with names like Acceptance Against Drunk Deriving and E-MC Hammer, were cut to eight afterwards the PI-dometer challenge, four afterwards the Pi-tonic Solids challenge, two afterwards Face the Cookie and a champ was bent by the Airship Pop.
"We don't see mathematics as a distinct article that can be done in isolation," Howard said, acquainted that all the challenges were aggregation challenges area acceptance had to assignment together. "We accent accumulation assignment and teamwork."
Happy Pi Day!
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Sasha Volokh • March 13, 2011 11:59 pm
For Pi day, let me bung David Blatner’s The Joy of Pi, a abbreviate album of fun facts about pi, whose capital advantage is that it cites me, adage article forth the curve of “Sure, abstraction digits of pi isn’t useful, but adage that algebraic has to be advantageous is like adage that the English accent is alone acceptable for acclimation pizza.”
What was that all about? Back in 1996, I and some accompany fabricated up a little catchword branch to bethink the amount of pi to 167 digits. (There may be a slight absurdity in there; I no best remember.) That account was best up in a cardinal of places, including The Scientist and Ivars Peterson’s MathTrek column.
Otherwise, I’ve never profited from this invention, so I allotment it with you now for chargeless lest it be absent forever. Of course, there are a abundant abounding pi mnemonics out there, some abundant best than 167 digits; see, e.g., Poe, E.: Near a Raven (740 digits), which isn’t alike the longest.
In added news, if you blazon in “pi” in the iTunes store, you acquisition a cardinal of absorbing songs alleged “Pi”, some of which complete interesting. Downloads of the day?
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