Lot was discussed yesterday about the irrational. As in the irrational number called Pi. Yesterday was March 14 or 3.14 which happens to also be the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter.
Mathematicians had a field day explaining and expounding on it. Other geeks also jumped in memorizing the longest strings after the decimal and some just had fun with it trying to decipher meaning where there was none. Cooks came out offering samples of free baked circles called Pies.
I for one just thought that while the letter Pi is the 16th in greek alphabet it also may have a dervation that seems eerily representative of what the Marathi language refers to as legs. As in the hind ones of a mammal used for mobility.
A stick figure representation of a person standing would show the letter Pi for its lower extremities and that in Marathi is expressed as Mansache (person's) Pi (legs).
Nothing irrational about that. In fact very rational. Using ones legs to get around so we can go to school and learn about Pi.
PS: Not to go too Vitruvian here but if you look closely you will see that what is called Pi (legs) or more specifically Payachi Lambi (length of leg) times 3.14 is about equal to the height of that corresponding human (to who the said Pi belong).
Mathematicians had a field day explaining and expounding on it. Other geeks also jumped in memorizing the longest strings after the decimal and some just had fun with it trying to decipher meaning where there was none. Cooks came out offering samples of free baked circles called Pies.
I for one just thought that while the letter Pi is the 16th in greek alphabet it also may have a dervation that seems eerily representative of what the Marathi language refers to as legs. As in the hind ones of a mammal used for mobility.
A stick figure representation of a person standing would show the letter Pi for its lower extremities and that in Marathi is expressed as Mansache (person's) Pi (legs).
Nothing irrational about that. In fact very rational. Using ones legs to get around so we can go to school and learn about Pi.
PS: Not to go too Vitruvian here but if you look closely you will see that what is called Pi (legs) or more specifically Payachi Lambi (length of leg) times 3.14 is about equal to the height of that corresponding human (to who the said Pi belong).
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