Happy Pi Day
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:40 pm
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Happy Pi Day to you too, Orin (even if it's already March 15 here in Sweden, and it's my nephew's 30th birthday)!orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:52 pm Let's see! Pies i had! Peach; Apple; Pecan; Pumpkin; Cherry; Rhubarb; & Pizza! Ala mode on Peach & Apple! Whipped cream on Pumpkin!
Dutch Apple alsodownload.jpg!
Picture from Hi Vee!
Ann; happy birthday to your nephew! My wife's birthday is on St. Patrick's Day!Ann wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:19 amHappy Pi Day to you too, Orin (even if it's already March 15 here in Sweden, and it's my nephew's 30th birthday)!orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:52 pm Let's see! Pies i had! Peach; Apple; Pecan; Pumpkin; Cherry; Rhubarb; & Pizza! Ala mode on Peach & Apple! Whipped cream on Pumpkin!
Dutch Apple alsodownload.jpg!
Picture from Hi Vee!
Congratulations, Erik! 🥳
Ann
P.S. Hey, the emoji I pasted into my post looked like a whole round pie, but when I submitted my post the round π pie turned into a non-π slice of pie! Not good!
There’s nothing quite like celebrating Pi Day with π/8 on a plate next to an oblate spheroid of ice cream.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie wrote:<<The source of the word "pie" may be the magpie, a "bird known for collecting odds and ends in its nest"; the connection could be that Medieval pies also contained many different animal meats, including chickens, crows, pigeons and rabbits. One 1450 recipe for “grete pyes” that is suggested as support for the "magpie" etymology contained what Charles Perry called "odds and ends", including: "...beef, beef suet, capons, hens, both mallard and teal ducks, rabbits, woodcocks and large birds such as herons and storks, plus beef marrow, hard-cooked egg yolks, dates, raisins and prunes."
- An occurrence of π in the Mandelbrot set fractal was discovered by David Boll in 1991. He examined the behaviour of the Mandelbrot set near the "neck" at (−0.75, 0). If points with coordinates (−0.75, ε) are considered, as ε tends to zero, the number of iterations until divergence for the point multiplied by ε converges to π.
Early pies were in the form of flat, round or freeform crusty cakes called galettes consisting of a crust of ground oats, wheat, rye, or barley containing honey inside. These galettes developed into a form of early sweet pastry or desserts, evidence of which can be found on the tomb walls of the Pharaoh Ramesses II, who ruled from 1304 to 1237 BC, located in the Valley of the Kings. Sometime before 2000 BC, a recipe for chicken pie was written on a tablet in Sumer.
Ancient Greeks are believed to have originated pie pastry. In the plays of Aristophanes (5th century BC), there are mentions of sweetmeats including small pastries filled with fruit. Nothing is known of the actual pastry used, but the Greeks certainly recognized the trade of pastry-cook as distinct from that of baker. (When fat is added to a flour-water paste it becomes a pastry.)>>