Happy Pi Day! Math, Solutions, Fun With Numbers

Happy Pi Day

• "Today is Pi Day!"
• Occu-π: The Strange History of Counting To Pi
• Pi calculated to 10 trillion digits.
• Pi Day Dominoes
• Oh No, Pi Politics Again
• Visualizing Pi
• The Indiana Pi Bill--Surprising how close it got to be legislated to 3.2.
• Musical Pi--Here's the source of the song.
• Pi is everywhere
• π is Wrong!--Wherefore art tau?

I Was Told There Would Be No Math

• How Speeding The "Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime" Could Change This Modern World
• Physicist cuts plane boarding time in half
• Public Key Cryptography makes perfect sense with paint, rope and clocks
• Fibonacci Flim-Flam
• Pac-Man is NP-hard, same as traveling salesman problem--As the research paper says, "Gaming is a hard job, but someone has to do it!"

Solutions

• A 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by supercomputer
• How 18th-Century Copiale Cipher Was Cracked NYT
• Mathematicians Solve Minimum Sudoku Problem

Fun with Numbers

• Your mind-fuck is no match for my algebra
• SMBC: We're # what?
• xkcd: Number Line