{"id":3617,"date":"2006-03-20T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/03\/20\/finally-something-math-related-thats-useful\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:39:27","slug":"finally-something-math-related-thats-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/03\/20\/finally-something-math-related-thats-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, something math related that&#8217;s useful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You missed Pi Day, didn&#8217;t you? (Unless you&#8217;re a blogger, then you probably posted something about it to prove your mastery of arcane cultural detritus. As if anyone can really master detritus.) Of course, anyone can put up a post on March 14 and dedicate it to pi, but only the most committed can provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facade.com\/legacy\/amiinpi\/\">a computational machine that will search 1.2 million digits or so on the right side of the decimal to find where in that string your birthday appears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I&#8217;m in the top ten percent, at position 114,290 (and the sum of those digits is 17, and I don&#8217;t think I have to tell you what <em>that<\/em> signifies).<\/p>\n<p>Tip o&#8217;the green eyeshade to <a href=\"http:\/\/soccerdad.baltiblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/17\/times_and_dates.html\">Soccer Dad<\/a> (who also notes the formation of a new ocean in Africa), by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.white-pebble.net\/?p=3055\">White Pebble<\/a> (who&#8217;s in a dither [tizzy? tither?] about the new ocean, but apparently didn&#8217;t notice the ode to pi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that I shall never spy a number as lovely as pi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6412,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}