Happy Pi Day!
03-14-2026, 02:07 AM
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Happy Pi Day!
As my nerd holidays go, this is a biggie. I can (and did) skip Mario day (Mar10), and the next big one is Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you), for which I have a quilting themed shirt.
But here's my shirt for today. I am easily amused
The math is i for imaginary number, I'd say that integer also works. The way our math works is you can't really have a square root of a negative number, but you can imagine it!
2 cubed is 8,
Σ is sum,
π is pi!.
For ease of reading it says (more or less) I ate some pie, and it was delicious!
But here's my shirt for today. I am easily amused
The math is i for imaginary number, I'd say that integer also works. The way our math works is you can't really have a square root of a negative number, but you can imagine it!
2 cubed is 8,
Σ is sum,
π is pi!.
For ease of reading it says (more or less) I ate some pie, and it was delicious!
03-14-2026, 04:51 AM
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Thanks for the translation. In school, I loved math--until we got to Trigonometry which never made any sense to me at all!! Thank goodness it is not a necessary function of quilting.
Pie....hmmm....think I'm going to make a little dessert. Happy Pi Day!
Pie....hmmm....think I'm going to make a little dessert. Happy Pi Day!
03-14-2026, 06:36 AM
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I do use trig to get the (approximate) angles for Doreen Speckmann's Peaky and Spike unit.
It's much easier to just draw it on graph paper, but trig does explain why 30-60-90 and 60-60-60 triangles do not make a square unit.
It's much easier to just draw it on graph paper, but trig does explain why 30-60-90 and 60-60-60 triangles do not make a square unit.
