{"id":792,"date":"2008-07-22T09:57:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=792"},"modified":"2018-11-13T04:30:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T23:30:47","slug":"pi-314159265358979323846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/pi-314159265358979323846\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi = 3.14159265358979323846&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/360px-pi-unrolled-720.gif\" alt=\"360px-pi-unrolled-720.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <em>Pi (Approximation) Day<\/em> today ( 22\/7 ) first celebrated 20 years ago by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Shaw_%28Pi%29\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Shaw<\/a> at the San Francisco <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exploratorium\" target=\"_blank\">Exploratorium<\/a>. Pi or \u03c0 is the mathematical constant which represents the ratio of any circle\u2019s circumference to its diameter in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Euclidean_geometry\" target=\"_blank\">Euclidean geometry<\/a>\u2014it\u2019s also an irrational number (it cannot truly be expressed as a fraction, and its decimal representation never ends or repeats), as well as a transcendental number (no finite sequence of algebraic operations on integers [powers, roots, sums, etc.] can ever produce it). More on Pi <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pi\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/science\/5numbers2.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy <em>Pi Day :-)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Pi (Approximation) Day today ( 22\/7 ) first celebrated 20 years ago by Larry Shaw at the San Francisco Exploratorium. Pi or \u03c0 is the mathematical constant which represents the ratio of any circle\u2019s circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry\u2014it\u2019s also an irrational number (it cannot truly be expressed as a fraction, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,8,13,17,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16826,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/16826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}