http://www.bloggernews.net/119946 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:11:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/119946#comment-1022283 SquirrelFinders Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:41:58 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/119946#comment-1022283 Square Root Day rocks, but let's not forget Pi Day, March 14 (Pi = 3.14...), when people in Cambridge, MA go wild in the streets. I've seen them bake cupcakes with single numerals on them so they could line them up and take Pi out to 500 decimal places. And that's just to feed the all-night group stringing together numbered beads for a necklace taking Pi out to 5,000 decimal places. I actually saw a guy in the wee hours point out that they missed a bead mid-way through, and the group took half the beads off to correct the mistake and finish the job right. Hey, it's MIT. Go figure. Square Root Day rocks, but let’s not forget Pi Day, March 14 (Pi = 3.14…), when people in Cambridge, MA go wild in the streets. I’ve seen them bake cupcakes with single numerals on them so they could line them up and take Pi out to 500 decimal places. And that’s just to feed the all-night group stringing together numbered beads for a necklace taking Pi out to 5,000 decimal places. I actually saw a guy in the wee hours point out that they missed a bead mid-way through, and the group took half the beads off to correct the mistake and finish the job right. Hey, it’s MIT. Go figure.

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