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When Pie met Pi

By Pot Luck

Pie versus Pi

And now for a few fun facts about Pi / Pie. See if you can tell which fact belongs to which one!

  • March 14 is Pi/Pie day (3.14) and Albert Einstein was born on that day too.
  • Pumpkin Pie/Pi was introduced to the pilgrims second Thanksgiving in 1623.
  • In the Star Trek movie, Wolf in the Fold, Spock foils the evil computer by ordering it to compute to last digit the value of pi/pie. In the real world, computers can undergo a ‘digital cardiogram’ (a stress test) by computing pi/pie.
  • The American Pie Council is an organization committed to preserving America’s pi/pie heritage and promoting American’s love affair with pi/pies.
  • The Guinness World Records for memorising pie/pi (this practice is called piphilology) was achieved by Chao Lu, who recited pi from memory to 67,890 places. It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes with 4 years of practice.
  • Pi/pie cannot be accurately represented in fraction form. Most of us know it as 22/7, but this only represents 0.00000849%. However, it would be more accurately represented with this fraction 104348/33215 (00000001056%).

What’s your Pi/Pie story?