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Why It’s Called Pi

By Miss Cellania in Everything Else on Sep 7, 2009 at 11:15 pm


It all makes perfect sense now. I don’t know the original source for this image. If I find who did it, I’ll celebrate by calculating the area of a blackberry pie. -via Digg


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  1. ed
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 1:09 am

    Well first of all it is Pi as in Greek letter ? which stands for ?????????? (periphery) and ?????????? (perimeter). Which i think is neat.

  2. ed
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 1:10 am

    ok.. sorry, it doesn't display greek letters in my previous post. sorry for that. just check wikipedia for it or osmething :)

  3. Lady Helena Handbasket
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 3:26 am

    Did anyone else hear that whooshing sound?

  4. ed
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 3:58 am

    i did - that was the sound of neat and interesting knowledge whooshing by you while you were trying to be clever.

  5. z3r0w1n9
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 8:36 am

    @Helena - I heard it... there it was again...

  6. MadMolecule
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 9:40 am

    I'm actually a little embarrassed that I never noticed this before. Very neat.

  7. Gauldar
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Pie are not squared. Pie are round.

  8. Miss Cellania
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 11:15 am

    Cornbread are square!

  9. Gauldar
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 11:28 am

    CBr²!

  10. hhype
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 11:31 am

    Fascinating to take the Arabic numeral expression of the first few digits of Pi and find that turning them upside down incorrectly spells the word for the Greek letter in the Roman alphabet.

  11. FishBottleT
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    very neat-o-rific

  12. Justin
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    Why you gotta be such a square hhype?

  13. Qrrbrbirlbel
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    Mind = blown.

  14. Alex
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    Ah, I just realized my problem. See, my 4 is never written with the "closed" top ...

  15. emmakate
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    seems like something Dmitri Martin would come up with

  16. ted
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    What's so greaet about that?

    So, the number 3.14 written a certain way looks similar to the classical greek Rho Iota Sigma, or Sigma Iota Rho, depending on which direction you read it. RIS makes no sense, but SIR spells the English word "sir".

    So is this saying that men are mathematically perfect?

  17. Carl
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    "what's so great about that"

    Man, ted, you're a downer.

    There's nothing "great" about that. It's neat. Like the name of this website?

    It's like people on Fark complaining "this is news?"

  18. ted
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    Carl, you took my comment too seriously, and ignored my own more accurate interpretation of the phenomenon.

    Shame on you.

  19. Neslock
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    LOUD NOISES!!!

  20. gerrycody
    Sep 8th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    wow! so simple but this can't be why, must be a coincidence
    did they hold it up to a mirror

  21. Michigan Fur Coats
    Sep 9th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    @emmakate Yup, I agree. What happened to his show anyway? It was pretty funny.

  22. pacox
    Sep 10th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    hhype rocks!!!!

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