2nd best day of PI

2^nd best days of pi or π (complete references for items of a factual nature can be found in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

Today, 3-14-15 is one of many days that consist the group called the 2^nd best days of pi. Basically this group includes all March 14 in the year 15, 115, 215,…2015, 2115 and so on.  The best day of pi was March 14, 1592 (3.141592).

The mathematical constant of pi is believed to have been a part of early Egyptian buildings as early as 2589 BC because the ratio of height to perimeter of the Great Pyramid of Giza comes to 6.2857 which is approximately 2π.

Tablets have been found in Egypt and Babylon where pi is represented to 1% of its actual value.  The Greeks in 250 BC came up with Archimedes' constant which is a polygonal algorithm used to calculate pi.  The Persians, Chinese and Indians all had mathematical representations to calculate pi.

In the 16^th and 17^th centuries a new method for calculating pi was developed called the infinite series.  These series moved the calculation of pi to more accurate findings.  Many of the previous findings were limited to how many digits pi could be calculated (38 being the prevailing theory around 1630 AD).  These numbers often calculated with variations and divergence.

The infinite series method converged to a more accurate number at a quicker rate than did polygonal algorithms.  In the 1700s there were other significant findings for the number pi that had nothing to do with calculating the number more accurately.  Solving the Basel problem, Riemann zeta function, proving pi to be irrational and transcendental in nature.  Somes like some people I know.

It was not until 1706 that the Greek letter pi was used to represent the number.

In 1949, two Americans calculated pi to 1,120 digits using a desktop calculator.

So what is the importance of pi other than to be able to say you know more digits of pi than somebody else (Think the nerdish way to say I can throw a ball further).  There are many reasons to pi is important from being able to calculate various components of round objects like volume, area, circumference.  It is believed that pi to 39 digits is sufficient to accurately calculate the volume of the known universe precise to one atom.

I have said before when discussing scientific items that I believe things like physics and pi were part of the creation of our planet and universe.  Now I realize my belief that God created the world and the universe is not so popular amongst many who would be a part of these type math and science discussions (many not all).  But I believe firmly that God created things like pi while he was creating the universe. Why?  A question I hope to ask one day.  Maybe to prevent those of us who could (the majority) for having the ability to destroy it.  There was a Stargate episode where people on a planet could not see the aliens they thought were Gods in their true form until they could solve certain riddles that were based on math and science. NO I AM  NOT SAYING I THINK GOD IS AN ALIEN!  BUT maybe that is how God will determine when Jesus will return, when we can figure out all the mathematical and scientific riddles he left us to discover. Maybe that will be the only way we can understand the answers he will give us.  My guess is no we use technology to often to be lazy or do bad things. Who knows, I certainly don’t.  But the fact that pi has been calculated to 10 trillion digits, but no group of numbers ever repeat themselves.  Is there a hidden message in this?

What I do know, is Barnabas keeps asking what flavor of Pie we are having.  “What do you mean no pie, it’s pie day”