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Pi Day: The Mathematical Recipe for Pi(e) #shorts

2022-03-14

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By starting with the prime number 71, you can make a simple recipe for pie. If 71 is the denominator, a numerator of 208 yields two important mathematical constants with +/- 15. 223/71 gives you a very close pi approximation, and 193/71 is just thousandths away from Euler's number. Put them together and you've got pi(e)!

But the weird part here isn't the fraction, it's the role of 71, which has a series of strange properties. AND WHAT HAPPENS IN THE YEAR 2059?

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