Meme reply for Domestinatrix

[cupcake_goth]

Pie pie pi pi pi pie!

Today is Pi(e) Day! Blog about pi or pie!

Well all righty then! First things first: I am Not A Math Person. No, seriously. My lack of understanding for math and math-related things is near-legendary among my friends. (I once passed an algebra class by adhering to the theory that when in doubt, X = 8.)

But, Pi! It's an irrational number, how cool is that? Okay, yes, I immediately think of the definition of "irrational" as in how it is frequently applied to me, instead of the mathematical definition, but still! Nifty, and think I'm going to spend a bit of my afternoon reading up more about Pi.

As for pie, the yummy baked treat: why yes, I am in favor of it. I really should bake more pies, because strangely enough, I'm really good at making pie crust. domestinatrix thinks it's because I don't work the crust too much; my enthusiasm and attention span for baking lasts just long enough so that I don't fiddle too much with it.

A last note to leave you with: one of my dad's favorite jokes in my childhood involved the time-honored punchline of "No, Pi are round; cornbread are square".

Comments

[domestinatrix.livejournal.com]

I love that joke, and think about it almost any time someone refers to cornbread.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

1) Real cornbread - the kind made in the south - is also round because it's made in a cast iron skillet, with less sugar and better corn meal than any impostors you might have encountered.

2) π: God's phone number. (I guess that would make e His fax number.)

[m-cobweb.livejournal.com]

Ah, the non-sweet cornbread. That's the kind I really like.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Pi is not an irrational number; it's a transcendental number.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia says it's both irrational and transcendental. ::shrug::

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Well, it's irrational by virtue of not being rational, yes. But it's more special than that! It's transcendental. It RISES ABOVE ALL OTHER NUMBERS. Except for e. And phi.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

An example of an irrational number that is not transcendental is the square root of two. It's one of the "algebraic" numbers: numbers that, while not rational, can be expressed as rational numbers raised to rational powers. (If you'll recall, the square root of two is two to the one-half power, or 1.41 and change.)

getting my geek on

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia says the rational numbers are a proper subset of algebraic numbers, which makes sense to me. That isn't what I said above.

The sum & product of algebraic numbers is algebraic, but I don't think the same can be said of transcendental numbers: π + (4 - π) = 4.

It's also Einstein's birthday

[tolkiencub.livejournal.com]

Making it most amazingly wonderfully MATHICAL!

Which is like magical, but nerdier.

Re: It's also Einstein's birthday

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

this is the most wonderful piece of information in the history of ever.

math makes me twitch

[theblackdeer.livejournal.com]

I once passed a college algebra class by taking it 3 times...

[water-of-fire.livejournal.com]

I am also in favor of pie.

[mineke.livejournal.com]

I had to use pi a LOT to make your skirt! I had to figure out the circumference of the lower edge, then use that measurement to make the circumferences of smaller circles that I could then sew together to make a ruffle on the edge of your skirt that would require little to no actual ruffling...AND then I did a separate ruffle that actually did require ruffling which I had to take that circumference and multiply it by some random amount to figure out how many strips and how long to cut the strips

It was all very complicated, I assure you...it should look pretty cool when it's all done...soon, my dear, very sooooon

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

::is in awe of you::

And that, ladies and gentleman, is why I don't even attempt to draft patterns. Pi! Jommetry!

[reddheart.livejournal.com]

PIE!

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