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She's also named after the BEST TEXT EDITOR EVER AND I WILL FIGHT YOU.

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(Irony is, she uses Emacs.) [I made this factoid up.]

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Wish could make a real pie for the festivities! I emailed you a couple though. Pies are the first thing I made on my own before attending pastry school many many years ago.

The concept of a prime number sounds lonely. Only two factors. Almost alone. Perhaps they keep company with the other primes, together in their rarity. "Hey, I know what it's like." Or perhaps its a badge of honor. They are each singular, after all.

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Primes are also a perfect theme for nerd valentines. There had better be prime-themed valentines out there somewhere. Something about being "my only other factor" or something about the number 1 "the one." It's too perfect. But I'm not bright enough to come up with something on the fly.

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oooooh, this is such a good idea!!

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If there's anyone who could come up with something good it's the math nerd herself.

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What's your opinion on the Tau Manifesto: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto

tl;dr the ratio circumference to radius, rather than diameter, is actually a better number to use as the "circle constant", because practically every formula requiring the use of the circle constant actually requires the ratio of circumference to radius, requiring us to double the value of pi pretty much everywhere that we actually use it.

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This is a proper Rabbit Hole; but then Dodgson was a mathematician and the Dormouse asserted "Feed your head!" :-) Not really my oeuvre; but I can grasp maths as fun and funny now at least!

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Dark Horse Double Down Red Pill, sorry, Blend. Seriously? :-)

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Not a math nerd (sadly for my SATs) but I know that if I ever opened a pastry bakery, I would name it Omicron Pie---does that give me a half-credit point?

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'kin 'ell! Fifty years late, I grasp what that twat Br. Rinn was on about.

"Please Miss! Can I corral you as my On-Line Remedial Maths Teacher? Please Miss Holly, Please! A Napple a day, Miss. Honest, Miss, Please Miss?!!" Hand in the air; bouncing up and down on the settle. :-)

And I may only be half in jest!

Never heard of that Unit Circle thingymeplonkasaurus before. Sines and cosines are summat to do with the circle? You've made gibberish algebra-ish, pardon the pun. Circular reasoning is... rational. Whoda thunk? I can grasp now from your almost-religious awe the how-and-why Pythagoras tippled over into mystagoguey and the how-and-why of the circle being sacred; so sacred Copernicus' heliocentrism tripped on it.

Cheers for this; it was quite wonderful.

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Hi Holly:

I am an attorney and teach law and criminal justice at a community college, and have been practicing law for 28 years. However, my BS is in physics and mathematics and I, too, find the unit circle strangely comforting, even after all these years. I will still occasionally sketch it out and put all the coordinates in place just to see if I can do it.

I will also occasionally calculate the distance from home plate to second base on the baseball diamond. I had first learned it in a book about baseball as just a statement of fact, but later learned how to calculate it given the known distances between the bases.

I enjoy your writings, even the articles about math. Happy Pi Day!

Greg Perry

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> I’ve written about mathematics so much that I’m a little surprised any of you normies still read me, ha!

Who you callin' a normie, lady?

I ain't gonna take that from anyone!

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There was a Pi Day event at my brand new job yesterday.

The pizza had run out before I got in the serving room, so lunch yesterday consisted entirely of, well, pie.

Yesterday afternoon was spent vigorously defending against food comas and sugar crashes...

Still, some tasty, tasty pies.

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