Why It’s Called Pi

1. ed
   September 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
   September 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
   September 8th, 2009 at 3:26 am

   Did anyone else hear that whooshing sound?

4. ed
   September 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
   September 8th, 2009 at 8:36 am

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

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

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

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

   Pie are not squared. Pie are round.

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

   Cornbread are square!

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

   CBr²!

10. hhype
    September 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
    September 8th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    very neat-o-rific

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

    Why you gotta be such a square hhype?

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

    Mind = blown.

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

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

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

    seems like something Dmitri Martin would come up with

16. ted
    September 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
    September 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
    September 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
    September 8th, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    LOUD NOISES!!!

20. gerrycody
    September 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
    September 9th, 2009 at 10:06 am

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

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

    hhype rocks!!!!

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