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Cosmic Piece of Pi!
Did you know that pi is involved nearly anywhere you look? We’re not talking about your favorite pastry! Pi (also written as the Greek letter 𝞹, or the number 3.14159…) is an irrational number, which means it can’t be written as a simple fraction like ½. It is the ratio of a circle’s circumference (the distance around its edge) to its diameter (the distance across it) and will always be the same number, regardless of the circle’s size. Here are some places you can find pi in the universe around us!
Our Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, watches slices of the sky in its hunt for worlds outside our solar system — how many exoplanets are in its night-sky pie? Last July, TESS scientists created a mosaic of 208 images of the southern sky. At that time, it contained 29 confirmed and 1,000 possible exoplanets, and we’re still studying the data to find more. Since this awe-inspiring image is of the southern hemisphere (or half of a 3D circle), there will always be pi! Every slice contains something delicious for scientists to study.
Pi recently played a crucial role in new discoveries about Alpha Draconis, a well-studied pair of stars. After discovering these stars regularly eclipse each other, pi helped scientists learn more about them. Scientists detected the eclipses while monitoring the brightness of Alpha Draconis for periodic dips that could’ve been caused by planets passing between the star and us. Instead of a planet, though, researchers found that its smaller partner in crime was passing in between us and the larger star for about six hours at a time! 💫
Pi comes in handy as we learn more about these two stars. Knowing the percentage of the decrease in Alpha Draconis’ light and the formula for the area of a circle (A=𝞹r2 — or area equals pi times the square of the circle’s radius), scientists can predict the sizes of both stars. Because stars typically orbit in an elliptical (or oval) shape, pi also helps scientists use the detection of these eclipses to figure out the orbits of the two stars!
So far we’ve seen pi in many places! But it’s also interesting to look at where pi can’t be found! We mentioned earlier that many orbit calculations involve pi … but not every one does! Pi does not factor into calculations of hyperbolic orbits — orbits that aren’t complete, or don’t return to where they started — the same way that it does with elliptical orbits! This is most commonly seen with comets. While many comets orbit normally in our solar system, some oddballs just pass through, like the interstellar ‘Oumuamua that zipped passed us in 2017. ☄️
Perhaps the most popular place you may find pi is in the shape of a typical pie! While NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope studies gamma-rays, and not blueberries, we think this cool Fermi pie is worth sharing for Pi Day!
Find more ways scientists look up at the night sky and use pi here. And now, don’t be irrational, and go have some pi(e)! 🥧
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Happy Pi Day!!
I was watching Matt Parker's old pi videos and he mentioned a method of calculating pi using the prime numbers, so I figured that'd be a fun thing to do for this blog
I'm not sure how accurate it'll end up getting, so I'm just gonna leave it running for the rest of the day and give an update whenever I call it done. So far, it's gotten 4 digits but idk if it'll be able to do more
Code and video I mentioned below the cut
Constructive critisism on the code isn't discouraged. I don't plan on making money with my programs, but it would be nice to be able to get better at it
He talks about the method I'm doing at 1:38
Things I said in the house of pies that made our server say "you say the darndest things" in no particular order, may 29 1:29 am
I have very high standards for fries, and I only eat them if I'm really hungry
I once dipped chick fil a nuggets in cupcake frosting (surprisingly good fyi)
If I needed to have my leg amputated, I would want to be able to rip my prosthetic off and beat someone over the head with it
Not the server but the people behind my friend had a pause in the conversation right when I was saying that dino nuggies were made of dinosaurs and chicken nuggets were made of chickens and in that moment I felt severely judged
Oh also that the server said to open the menu to the middle when I was looking for the sides and I opened it and closed it in a different way and I think that was the beginning of her thinking I was mentally silly
I'm not sure but I think she was there when I said I've tried sour patch kids wrapped in seaweed (surprisingly good pt2)
Anyways, I hope my punch drunk ramblings made this servers day
An accurate representation of me trying to remember as many digits of pi last night. for once I'm surprised that I didn't procrastinate. - *Repost w/Credit*
Grrilla SaPient on Flickr.
Time for me to fly! Didn't want you to forget that I actually am an artist. Had to take another shot at my next sticker, as the vector/computer version lacked some life. Only took a few minutes, but redrawing is always better than hacking away at something just to end up with a polished turd. #pi #meat #PiCrew #dailysketch #character #graphite #red #characterdesign #lineOfAction
Does a deer shart in the woods? Touch up on sketch inspired by @magicalbunnycat 's tchotchke deer scooped up at an estate sale #meatismurder #meat #pi #picrew #pink #adobeIdeas #lines #drawing #vector #arte #ilustración #illustration
#MeatPi #AnalogColor #meatcut #butcherchart #cow #vector #adobeideas #illustration #ilustracíon #arte #bistec #res #beef #balls #toro #vaca #pi #veggie
Becky Cthulhu - 2nd version of this… #KISS #vector #vectorart #illustration #ilustracíon #art #arte #thickthighssavelives #chonky #chunky #thick #diles #dilesQueDijeAlgo #scifi #scienceFiction #thick #meatpi #Meat #pi #vectorAday #vectorerryday
