{"id":6411,"date":"2015-03-14T22:13:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T05:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6411"},"modified":"2015-03-17T22:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T05:18:58","slug":"i-like-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/14\/i-like-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"I Like Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/03\/14\/10-stunning-images-show-the-beauty-hidden-in-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>10 stunning images show the beauty hidden in pi<\/h1>\n<p><b>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/ana-swanson\" target=\"_blank\">Ana Swanson<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/files\/2015\/03\/pi-dots-00-thumb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday &#8212; March 14, 2015, or 3\/14\/15 &#8212; marks an extremely nerdy holiday. It is the official celebration of \u03c0, the magical, mathematical and infinite constant that is the ratio of a circle\u2019s circumference to its diameter.<\/p>\n<p>For any circle you can imagine, if you divide the distance around the circle by the distance across it, you will get pi, or 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749<br \/>\n445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066<br \/>\n470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We could keep going, but you get the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Some people will celebrate the holiday by making and eating pies (Washington restaurants are offering\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/going-out-guide\/wp\/2015\/03\/11\/heres-how-to-celebrate-pi-day-around-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\">specials<\/a>\u00a0on everything from pizza to banana cream). Others will run a Pi-K race of 3.14 kilometers. And some data tinkerers are making art that visualize pi\u2019s infinite and random digits.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best known of these data tinkerers is\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/mkweb.bcgsc.ca\/pi\/\">Martin Krzywinski<\/a>, a scientist who specializes in bioinformatics, or using computer science and statistics to understand biological data.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/03\/14\/10-stunning-images-show-the-beauty-hidden-in-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to see more Pi art at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post 10 stunning images show the beauty hidden in pi By\u00a0Ana Swanson Saturday &#8212; March 14, 2015, or 3\/14\/15 &#8212; marks an extremely nerdy holiday. It is the official celebration of \u03c0, the magical, mathematical and infinite constant that is the ratio of a circle\u2019s circumference to its diameter. For any circle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}