Pi. I was taken to
task today by an alert and long time reader (remembering my penchant for
numbers) for not mentioning that today is so called “Pi Day” in that the date on March 14th is 3/14
which is the same as the first three digits in Pi, or 3.14. Two years from today, in 2015, we get two
more in the series or 3.1415. and then
with a little engineering license, if we append the date of September 26th,
at thirty five minutes and 8 point 97 seconds past five, one would have a
pretty good run on pi..( 3/14/15;9:26:5:35;8.97)..
I’ll bet there will be parties (serving pizza.... Pi's)…
and for once I think you can safely say it will never again happen in
recorded time, at least in this universe.
And just for whatever… here are more digits:
3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510
5820974944 5923078164
The other quick mention is that tomorrow is the start of the
annual Friends of the Library book sale at the fairgrounds. Once again there are thousands of books, and
ridiculously low prices, like two bucks for a very nice hardcopy. Tomorrow is “members day” allowing members of
the Friends to get early pickings. It
opens at one for them, and you can join for a small fee of (I think) 15
bucks. There are tables and tables of
cookbooks by the way..
I’ll be in non-fiction. And
really not
DFD
And PS, tomorrow IS the Ides of March.. beware!!
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