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Six STEM Tweets - pi day edition
Harshal Chhaya
March 14, 2025
Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate all things pi
I scroll so you don’t have to.
May your curiosity be like pi - irrational and unending
Some interesting pi-related wordplay at the end of the email
This email is a bit late because:
Sending it on time would be the rational thing to do. But pi day is the day to do irrational things 😂
I got caught up in daily routine and only now got some time to send it out
Hope you enjoy this irrational collection.
Did you do anything special for pi day? I made a lot of brilliant jokes and ate pizza 😄
#1 🤯
March 14:
• Birth of Albert Einstein
• Death of Stephen Hawking
• Pi Day— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed)
2:52 PM • Mar 14, 2025
#2 🤯
The risk of verbally sharing your love of pi(e)
— Howie Hua (@howie_hua)
5:29 PM • Nov 13, 2024
#3 🤯
Mathematics and beauty.
Here's an eye-catching equation connecting i, e and pi. The left-hand side has only imaginary terms, and the right-hand side has only real terms. Source: bit.ly/33CmqCv
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover)
11:46 PM • Oct 28, 2024
#4 🤯
The Feynman point is the name given to the position in the decimal expansion of π where a sequence of six consecutive nines first appears. It is named after the physicist Richard Feynman, who allegedly joked that he would like to memorize the digits of pi up to that point and… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Physics In History (@PhysInHistory)
11:00 AM • Sep 28, 2024
#5 🤯
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed)
11:18 AM • Mar 14, 2025
Be forewarned about clicking the “show more” link.
It goes on and on and one
#6 🤯
I saw this at Target. How would you use it to approximate pi?
— Dave Richeson (@divbyzero)
6:39 PM • Jul 29, 2024
pi is all around us
About
This newsletter is my way of sharing interesting science-related news with my curious friends. I enjoy finding science and math connections in our world.
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A short mnemonic for remembering the first seven decimal digits of pi is "How I wish I could calculate pi" (C. Heckman)
A more substantial mnemonic giving 15 digits (3.14159265358979) is "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics," originally due to Sir James Jeans (Gardner 1966, p. 92)
A mnemonic in French is given by "Moi, j'aime a faire connaitre un nombre utile aux sages," which gives 11 digits and can be roughly translated as, "Me, I like to teach a number useful to wisemen."
That’s it for this issue.
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Let’s all celebrate science and engineering and curiosity.
Best wishes,
Harshal