March 14, 2002 -- Pi Day

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From: Lori Lambertson (loril@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 11:56:11 PST 

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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:56:11 -0800
From: Lori Lambertson <loril@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: March 14, 2002 -- Pi Day

Hello Pinhole friends,
I am forwarding this email I got through a math list serv:
Here are some ideas to help celebrate Pi Day this Thursday (3.14)! A web
site that is not in the email below is the Exploratorium's Pi Day page:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/pi/pi.html
Happy Pi Day
Lori

> http://www.joyofpi.com/
> . It's also the birthday of Albert Einstein and Waclaw Sierpinski.
>http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sierpinski.html
> . How many digits of pi can you recite? Can you make the 100 Club?
>3.141592 653589 793238 462643 383279 5028841 971693 Š
> . Wear a Your Pi T-shirt www.scienceteecher.com or call 651-649-1930
> . Fund-raiser: Mathletes can take orders for pieing a friend or a
>teacher. Pi(e) a friend for charity. . Music of Pi. Convert pi to
>base 12 (semitones for musical scale).
> . Write a pi poem or sing a Piethagorean Chant. Over the PA?
> . pi club www.albanyconsort.com/pi
> . Where is your birthday in pi? www.façade.com/legacy/amiinpi/
> . Buffon's Needle Problem. www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/buffon/buffon.html
> . What pop group sings pi,pi,pi? N Sync (Or was it 'Bye, Bye, Bye"?)
> . 206,158,430,000 digits of pi, 1999 by Dr. Kanada, U. of Tokyo
> . With piety, 1 Kings 7:23. www.yfiles.com/pi.html
> . Approximations of & formulas with pi
> . Why is 3.141592653589Š called pi? It's Greek to me.
> . Enjoy a pi on National pi day.
> . What is Pi if not pi?
> . Archimedes' Method http://personal.bgsu.edu/~carother/pi/Pi3.html
> Are you ready for National pi day?

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