Is it Spring, yet?

[femkes_follies]

Now, generally I try to avoid to-do lists. Mostly because for me, they're a lot like calculating the precise value of Pi - a lot of tedium, ad infinitum, there isn't any real point past the first few digits, and nobody cares anyway. Well, nobody except those geeky enough to celebrate Pi Day.

I did, however, get my compost bin assembled today, and put in a first layer.

And on Tuesday, I managed to scan another couple hundred pages of wills and bequests from the Netherlands. I'll try and translate and post one from time to time.

Comments

[sugarcoatedlie.livejournal.com]

well, we sometimes celebrate Pi day, but only as an excuse to make pie. :)

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

Who needs an excuse? *g*

Hmmm, seized by urge to make the old French Silk pie - raw eggs and all.

[odettedamboise.livejournal.com]

You can get pasteurized eggs in the shell, so that isn't really a worry anymore.

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

I've never seen them locally, though.

I get my eggs from my technician, so a little more safe than average, as they're much fresher. But still, any chicken can be a carrier, after all.

[odettedamboise.livejournal.com]

Calculating pi has value :-P stinking life science people and yet it doesn't because we all know that pi = pi. You don't need to substitute for it. ramblings of a mathematician at 4am after fussy kiddos

Oh, I should celebrate pi day this year. I wonder which kind of pie will not wreck our diet?

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

stinking life science people

Now, be nice. I took Calculus. Even got offered an override into Multivariable calculus. Just needed the credit hours for other stuff.

Sometimes you need a value to plug into an equation. And sometimes you're too lazy to determine how many sig figs you really want.

Hmmm, maybe a lemon chiffon? Chiffon pies are about 50% air. :-) And lemon is spring-y.

[odettedamboise.livejournal.com]

My AP Chemistry teacher used to call the Biology dept "the people from down the hall."

In Mathematics, you never need how many significant digits of pi you need because pi = pi and you can leave the answer at that. 3(pi/2) is not 4.712385... it is 3(pi/2) we are not interested in approximations in mathematics. We even like imaginary numbers. :-)

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

We even like imaginary numbers. :-)

I was never real fond. Though I prefer them to quantum physics, which just makes my head hurt. Higgs-Boson particles in particular.