4th Annual Boston Skeptics Pi Day
Posted on : Mar-06-2012 | By : John | In : Event, local
Tags: battle, cambridge, matematics, what's the harm
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Wednesday, March 14 is Pi Approximation Day.
Mathematics is a dirty business, but somebody has to do, preferably while covered with a sticky mass of Pie Filling! (The volume of a pie is 4⁄3×π×((Rt+Rb)⁄2)²×h, where Rt is the radius of the top of the pie, and Rb is the radius of the bottom of the pie and h is the thickness of the pie.)
Armed and dangerous
Join us for our annual pie fight on Cambridge Common (one block north of Harvard Square) on Wednesday, March 14 at 7 PM. Bring a pie and scuzzy clothes.
The weather forecast is for clear with a high of 56, so be prepared for freezing drizzle or heat and humidity.
Update: Bad Geometry! I forgot to multiply by the depth of the pie. Also, the Greek letter lowercase pi looks really awful in the default font. Sort of like a poorly drawn lowercase “n”. I said math is a dirty business; there’s your proof.
