Discovered in 3.1415926535897932384...
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discoveredinaljIt's been a while, but...
...apparently today is Pi Day - hurrah! Well, it's apparently Pi day because the date is 3.14, which means it's really only Pi Day in the US, cos as far as I know they're the only people who turn the day and month around like that, but we're all international, right? And in other countries we can celebrate the fact that it's 14.3.14 - by succumbing to Pi Day. *g*
So - Pi! There is of course a website - Piday.org, which, amongst other things, gives Pi to a million digits - but here's the first 20.
3.1415926535897932384
This challenge-on-Friday (because I'm guessing wine - or your pleasure of choice - can only help) is to write something Pros - anything Pros, because this isn't going to be easy. In Pilish. *g*
What in the world is Pilish? Good question. The brief answer is that it's writing where the number of letters in each consecutive word must conform to Pi. The first word must have 3 letters, the second 1 letter, the third 4 letters, the fifth 1 letter, the sixth 5 letters, and - if you get that far - the seventh must have 9 letters, and so on. Eeeeeeeeh!
The only way I've managed it so far is in a kind of weird poem... oh wait, there's a name for these, they're called piems! *g*
It's a lark, a Bodie absurdity.
He dreams Doyle,
his Doyle,
reaching pinnacled passion,
trembling,
and in him,
speaking.
"Love."
I'm pretty sure there are much more talented people watching this comm, who could do much much better. Please? *g* And there is one bloke who's written a novel in Pilish, so... well, maybe it's not that hard after all? Granted it wasn't about our lads - well, I presume it wasn't... *g*
Alternatively, try a piku. From the article linked above:
On the occasion of Pi Day, March 14 - (3/14, geddit?) - Mike has kindly agreed to unveil on this blog a new type of piem – the name for a poem in Pilish – based on the Japanese haiku. He calls it the “piku”.
It’s a moon,
A wheel revolving on golden earth, and lotus blossoms.
Mountains embrace windmills, and it all reflects this number, pi.
Not only is the piku in Pilish, but it satisfies these three other constraints:
i) the number of syllables in each line is 3, 14, and 15, reflecting the digits of pi.
ii) it captures some of the style of a traditional Japanese haiku.
iii) it is self-referential, referring to the ubiquity of pi in nature and the works of man.
Not sure I'll get as far as trying one of those, but I bet there are brilliant Pros-y people out there who could... *g*
Post to the comm any time between now and the end of March - because come to think of it, if we use the month and year then it's Pi month, right?
...apparently today is Pi Day - hurrah! Well, it's apparently Pi day because the date is 3.14, which means it's really only Pi Day in the US, cos as far as I know they're the only people who turn the day and month around like that, but we're all international, right? And in other countries we can celebrate the fact that it's 14.3.14 - by succumbing to Pi Day. *g*
So - Pi! There is of course a website - Piday.org, which, amongst other things, gives Pi to a million digits - but here's the first 20.
This challenge-on-Friday (because I'm guessing wine - or your pleasure of choice - can only help) is to write something Pros - anything Pros, because this isn't going to be easy. In Pilish. *g*
What in the world is Pilish? Good question. The brief answer is that it's writing where the number of letters in each consecutive word must conform to Pi. The first word must have 3 letters, the second 1 letter, the third 4 letters, the fifth 1 letter, the sixth 5 letters, and - if you get that far - the seventh must have 9 letters, and so on. Eeeeeeeeh!
The only way I've managed it so far is in a kind of weird poem... oh wait, there's a name for these, they're called piems! *g*
It's a lark, a Bodie absurdity.
He dreams Doyle,
his Doyle,
reaching pinnacled passion,
trembling,
and in him,
speaking.
"Love."
I'm pretty sure there are much more talented people watching this comm, who could do much much better. Please? *g* And there is one bloke who's written a novel in Pilish, so... well, maybe it's not that hard after all? Granted it wasn't about our lads - well, I presume it wasn't... *g*
Alternatively, try a piku. From the article linked above:
On the occasion of Pi Day, March 14 - (3/14, geddit?) - Mike has kindly agreed to unveil on this blog a new type of piem – the name for a poem in Pilish – based on the Japanese haiku. He calls it the “piku”.
It’s a moon,
A wheel revolving on golden earth, and lotus blossoms.
Mountains embrace windmills, and it all reflects this number, pi.
Not only is the piku in Pilish, but it satisfies these three other constraints:
i) the number of syllables in each line is 3, 14, and 15, reflecting the digits of pi.
ii) it captures some of the style of a traditional Japanese haiku.
iii) it is self-referential, referring to the ubiquity of pi in nature and the works of man.
Not sure I'll get as far as trying one of those, but I bet there are brilliant Pros-y people out there who could... *g*
Post to the comm any time between now and the end of March - because come to think of it, if we use the month and year then it's Pi month, right?
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