| Doug, Pi is indeed an interesting topic. Your email reminded me of a college professor who was trying to make math more interesting for the undergrads and started the class one day by exclaiming "E is a beautiful number!". He proceeded to describe many places where Euler's Identity and Euler's number (2.71828...) is found in science, math and nature. Of course Pi came into the picture as well. This kind of mathematical play is much like the old Scientific American column Martin Gardener authored years ago and his book Mathematical Circus, entertaining stuff. Best, Doug Douglas E Powell https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01
Hi All,
Pi is a very important constant to EEs. But we rarely have fun with it. So here is a way to enjoy Pi!
My oldest son, a new CS graduate, just posted a free app for iOS called "Birthday Pi." It has lots of interesting facts about Pi (like the sum of the first 144 digits is 666) and also will tell you what digit of pi your birthday (or any date) starts on. For instance, for a person born today, the birthdate starts at the 11679th digit of Pi and my birthday starts at the about the 25,000th digit of Pi. It is a fun app to play with.
Search for "Birthday Pi" by David Smith on the iOS store. His resume is also ready for those who need a CS major. Contact me privately and I will put you in contact with him if you would like his resume, which for his young age is pretty impressive!
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