{"id":163434,"date":"2015-03-15T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T10:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/15\/314-facts-about-pi\/"},"modified":"2015-03-15T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T10:45:58","slug":"314-facts-about-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/15\/314-facts-about-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"3(.14) Facts about Pi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teded.tumblr.com\/post\/113596656948\/3-14-facts-about-pi\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">teded<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In order to celebrate Pi Day, we TED-Ed nerds are bringing you 3 fun facts about our favorite irrational number!<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/bcf98a4173055c855c8b7f91d9b00f30\/tumblr_inline_nl44q7ASyO1sndsvm.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><b>1. Pi is infinite! To write it out, you\u2019d begin with 3.14159 and continue on\u2026.forever! That\u2019s why, instead of trying to write out an infinite number of digits every time, we just refer to it using the Greek letter, Pi.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/e1a374069cc89aaf0a808ee23071b8a1\/tumblr_inline_nl44ti1Amo1sndsvm.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><b>2. Pi is an irrational number, or a number that can never be expressed as a ratio of 2 whole numbers.<\/b><\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/13496828db01f99ed38a28dcfe697bb6\/tumblr_inline_nl44wfkSFM1sndsvm.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><b>3. Scientists have used Pi to calculate the density of our entire universe, which has infinitely less stuff in it than the total number of digits in Pi.\u00a0<br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>From the TED-Ed Lesson\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/the-infinite-life-of-pi-reynaldo-lopes\" target=\"_blank\">The infinite life of pi &#8211; Reynaldo Lopes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Animation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igorcoric.com\" target=\"_blank\">Igor Coric<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>teded: In order to celebrate Pi Day, we TED-Ed nerds are bringing you 3 fun facts about our favorite irrational number! 1. Pi is infinite! To write it out, you\u2019d begin with 3.14159 and continue on\u2026.forever! That\u2019s why, instead of trying to write out an infinite number of digits every time, we just refer to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/15\/314-facts-about-pi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3(.14) Facts about Pi!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18237,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}