Pie day today. \u00a0Well, not \"pie day\" but \u03c0 Day. \u00a0A day to celebrate all things to do with \u03c0.<\/p>\n
And this is a piem (that should be \u03c0em, I guess):<\/p>\n
Pie.<\/p>\n
I wish I could determine pi<\/p>\n
Eureka cried the great inventor<\/p>\n
Christmas pudding Christmas pie<\/p>\n
Is the problem\u2019s very centre<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Unlike me you'll have worked out that if you count the letters in each word, you\u2019ll get 3.14159265358979323846, which is \u03c0\u00a0to 20 decimal places.<\/p>\n
I learned all this from The Conversation<\/a> and I repeat it here as a bit of escapism from the gloom around us. \u00a0And to challenge myself to come up with a better sentence or verse. \u00a0It might be futile but, inspiringly,\u00a0the first 10,000 digits of pi are captured in a book:\u00a0Not A Wake.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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