Thursday 16 September 2010

Pi Day at the British Science Festival

Pi Day (Twitter #PiHunt) yesterday was a great success, with a brilliant audience whose success with Buffon's Needle surpassed our expectations and forced us to depart from our script. And it gave rise to Peter Rowlett's wonderful post-event pi mnemonic

Now I away,
I leave enlivened by having great and happy
historic, enjoyable, happily unanimous joy
at the exciting BSHM #pihunt

So no excuse for anyone to use 22/7 ever again.

(find more at http://travelsinamathematicalworld.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-i-wish-i-could-calculate-pihunt.html)

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