{"id":1477,"date":"2013-03-07T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/?p=658"},"modified":"2013-03-07T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:54:53","slug":"celebrating-pi-day-with-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/03\/07\/celebrating-pi-day-with-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Pi Day with\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pie, of course. Before you head out for Spring Break, stop by the UI Libraries on <strong>Thursday, March 14<\/strong> for the celebration. Grab an apple tartlet at:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"244\">Art Library<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"134\">9:15am &amp; 1:45pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"244\">Hardin Library for the Health Sciences<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"134\">1:59pm until gone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"244\">Lichtenberger Engineering Library<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"134\">1:59pm \u2013 4:00pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"244\">Main Library<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"134\">1:59pm \u2013 2:59pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"244\">Pomerantz Business Library<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"134\">10:00am until gone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"244\">Sciences Library<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"134\">10:00am until gone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Think back to your high school geometry class; Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is approximately 3.14159, but has been calculated to over two trillion digits, it goes on infinitely without repeating or becoming a pattern. Science would not exist without Pi.\u00a0 Mathematics, statistics, engineering, geography, geology, computer science, etc. all rely on Pi.<\/p>\n<p>More information about Pi can be found at Wolfram MathWorld: <a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/Pi.html\">http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/Pi.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pie, of course. Before you head out for Spring Break, stop by the UI Libraries on Thursday, March 14 for the celebration. Grab an apple tartlet at: Art Library 9:15am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}