What Kind of People Celebrate San Francisco's 'Pi Day'?

Here's the pie version of Pi, the down, dirty and baked goods approach, illustrated by Brady Haran, a video journalist who loves numbers. He's in an ordinary parking lot. He unpacks an enormous number of identical, small pies — I can't tell what kindLincoln Heard, age 3, and his Raspberry Pi · 10 comments Tags: kids 1 day ago by liz. Meet Lincoln, who is three years old. He'd like to show you how to set up your Raspberry Pi. Thanks very much, Lincoln, and thanks Dad!Yesterday's self-congratulatory pat on the back to anyone reciting Pi to ten digits might feel a bit inadequate compared to Santa Clara University's Ed.Easy as Pi: The Countless Ways We Use Numbers Every Day, by Jamie Buchan. Among the entertaining anecdotes in this collection is the story of an amateur mathematician named Edwin Goodwin who, in 1897, tried – unsuccessfully — to get the

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