It's a delicious mathematical day! Apparently there is a National Pie Day sometime in January, but why it doesn't fall on the brilliantly ironic March 14th is beyond me. To celebrate, I'm sending some fun pi facts, some pie facts, and a pi pie :) Is that enough pi for you?-The Guinness-recognized record for remembered digits of pi is 67, 890 digits, held by Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate student from China. It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite to the 67, 890th decimal place of pi without an error.
-Piphilology is the humorous yet serious study that involves the use of mnemonic techniques to remember the digits of pi.
"Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye,four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing,
oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?"
Where does this strange nursery rhyme come from? Putting live birds inside a huge pastry crust was indeed a common Medieval joke. It was played by the cooks of wealthy knights, who would present the pie to the knight with a real pie waiting in the kitchen. However, cooked birds were frequently placed by European royal cooks on top of a large pie to identify its contents. The use of more, um, "exotic" birds began with the coronation of eight-year-old English King Henry VI, who apparently enjoyed a nice adorned peacock pie.
-Throwing pies has been a comedy staple since Ben Turpin received one in Mr. Flip in 1909.
No comments:
Post a Comment