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Pi Day!
Happy pi day, everyone!
To try to understand the true significance of this day, I first needed to understand the meaning of the thing it is celebrating. So, I went to one of my more scholarly friends (Blackberry) and inquired into the nature of the holiday's namesake. The first thing I asked was, naturally, "what does this pie taste like?"*
When he heard that, he declared me an embarrassingly unlearned pup and set about giving me a passionate mathematical lesson. Within minutes every scrap of paper within paw's reach was covered in numbers and my mind was swimming with all the things Blackberry was trying to squeeze into it.
After a while, (I'm not sure if it's because he noticed the aghast expression on my face, or if it was because he had run out of slips of paper... though I think it was the latter) he slowed to a stop. Looking over the various notes scattered around us, he admitted that he hadn't exactly taken the most direct route in my tutoring, but he thought this gave a more general, fool-proof, informative definition.
And here I was thinking it was a day dedicated to dessert!
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*I think part of me was willing it to be chocolate pie (my favorite!) but I didn't want to get my hopes up.
Pi Day!
Happy pi day, everyone!
To try to understand the true significance of this day, I first needed to understand the meaning of the thing it is celebrating. So, I went to one of my more scholarly friends (Blackberry) and inquired into the nature of the holiday's namesake. The first thing I asked was, naturally, "what does this pie taste like?"*
When he heard that, he declared me an embarrassingly unlearned pup and set about giving me a passionate mathematical lesson. Within minutes every scrap of paper within paw's reach was covered in numbers and my mind was swimming with all the things Blackberry was trying to squeeze into it.
After a while, (I'm not sure if it's because he noticed the aghast expression on my face, or if it was because he had run out of slips of paper... though I think it was the latter) he slowed to a stop. Looking over the various notes scattered around us, he admitted that he hadn't exactly taken the most direct route in my tutoring, but he thought this gave a more general, fool-proof, informative definition.
And here I was thinking it was a day dedicated to dessert!
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*I think part of me was willing it to be chocolate pie (my favorite!) but I didn't want to get my hopes up.