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… Wisława Szymborska wrote a poem about π, and here is an excerpt:[109]
The caravan of digits that is pi does not stop at the edge of the page, but runs off the table and into the air, over the wall, a leaf, a bird's nest, the clouds, straight into the sky, through all the bloatedness and bottomlessness. Oh how short, all but mouse-like is the comet's tail!
Many schools around the world observe Pi Day (March 14, from 3.14).[110]
Several college cheers at the Georgia Institute of Technology[111] and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[112] include "3.14159!"
On November 7, 2005, alternative musician Kate Bush released the album Aerial. The album contains the song "Pi" whose lyrics consist principally of Bush singing the digits of π to music, beginning with "3.14".[113]
In Carl Sagan's novel Contact, π played a key role in the story. The novel suggested that there was a message buried deep within the digits of π placed there by the creator of the universe.[114] This part of the story was omitted from the film adaptation of the novel.
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Wolf in the Fold", after a murderous alien entity (which had once been Jack the Ripper) takes over the…
…, have known about pi for thousands of years because they have been working with circles for the same amount of time.Civilizations as old as the Ancient Egyptians and the Babylonians have been able to approximate pi to many digits, such as the fraction 25/8 and 256/81. The first written reference to it dates to 1900 BC.[4] Around 1650 BC the Egyptian Ahmes gave a value in the Rhind Papyrus. The…
… as transcendentals, which are numbers that cannot be the solution to a polynomial equation.[7]
Pi can also be used for figuring out many other things beside circles.[needs proof] The properties of pi have allowed it to be used in many other areas of math besides geometry, which studies shapes. Some of these areas are Complex analysis, Trigonometry, and Series.[
Pi is often written formally as the…
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