A Rounded-Off Day
Mar. 14th, 2023 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerWhen it comes to “days that certain people nudge each other and wink about,” I’m rather fonder of “Pi Day” than “May the Fourth.” In thinking about that, though, I did remember that the last time I made a post on the subject (but not on the day) for the sake of “having something show up on this journal every so often” it was also an effort at producing something cheerful and distracting at a moment of concern for global health and following a “Friday the thirteenth.” I’m conscious I’m not avoiding quite as many things now; I’m also conscious at least some people would insist perpetual and redoubled safeguards are to be maintained on pain of “you’ll be sorry.” I’m also stuck on a previous caution and washing my hands an awful lot after touching something that hasn’t sat around inside my place for several days.
As for the day itself, I did finish the last slice of a “half pie” I’d bought at the grocery store on the weekend. Remembering there’s another day later in the year that can be written in “day and month” format rather than “month and day” to become the approximation of pi “22/7”, I got to thinking of a better approximation of that mysterious number. The only problem was I couldn’t remember it and kept coming up with random numbers in my calculator. It took punching in pi myself to the modest number of digits I can remember and multiplying it by a half-recalled denominator to realize I’d been mixing up my digits when trying to recall “355/113.”
As for the day itself, I did finish the last slice of a “half pie” I’d bought at the grocery store on the weekend. Remembering there’s another day later in the year that can be written in “day and month” format rather than “month and day” to become the approximation of pi “22/7”, I got to thinking of a better approximation of that mysterious number. The only problem was I couldn’t remember it and kept coming up with random numbers in my calculator. It took punching in pi myself to the modest number of digits I can remember and multiplying it by a half-recalled denominator to realize I’d been mixing up my digits when trying to recall “355/113.”