Monday, 20 April 2020

Good pie bad pi

In this world there is a pie I like and a pi I don't like. The pie I like is a made of vegtables wrapped in pastry and the pi I don't like is π.

I like to bake vegan sausage rolls and vegtable pies in the oven and eat them. Popeye the sailor man almost drinks his spinach, I'm like that with macaroni cheese. gulp, gulp, gulp, then the pie. If there was a good fake cheese then I could easily become a vegan. 

The pi I don't like is the ratio between the circumference of a circle and the circle's width,  or π. The circumference of a circle is 3 and a bit times longer than the circle's width. Somewhere between 3.1 and 3.2. We will probably never know exactly where π is. I only know 3.14159 that is it, it goes on and on and on after that for thousands of digits. We may never know exactly where between 3.1 and 3.2 pie actually is. π is a very important constant for many calculations and yet it is incomplete, especially if you are using a cheap calculator from a £ shop, it probably knows less π than me. 

If you want to calculate the surface area of a circle for example you multiply the radius by itself then you multiply that by π (3 and a bit) a very long bit. There must be a better, more clear way to work out the area of a circle? No? I wish there was. I like everything to be simple. 

The only pie I want to see a lot of is the one that goes in my mouth. 

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