{"id":2747,"date":"2014-03-12T18:23:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T18:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/?p=802"},"modified":"2014-03-12T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T18:23:52","slug":"celebrating-pi-day-with-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/03\/12\/celebrating-pi-day-with-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Pi Day with\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2011\/03\/Pi-Pie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-186\" alt=\"Pie with the symbol Pi\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/science\/files\/2011\/03\/Pi-Pie-300x200.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Pie, of course! Before you head out for Spring Break, stop by the\u00a0<strong>Sciences Library<\/strong> to get your <strong>free apple\u00a0pie bites<\/strong>\u00a0on <strong>Friday, March 14<\/strong> for the celebration.<\/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&nbsp;Sciences Library to get your free apple&nbsp;pie bites&nbsp;on Friday, March 14 for the celebration. Think back to your [&hellip;]<\/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\/2747"}],"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=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}