When some colored or shaded digits of the number π listed on a canvas or cardboard reads or looks like the ghostly or imaginary word “sky.”
When Paul asked Timothy whether he saw the “sky in the pi” on the huge poster, his geeky friend thought he misspoke the term “pi in the sky.”
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It’s an unspoken desire among Fields medalists—the mathematical equivalent of Nobel Prize winners in mathematics—and first-rate mathematicians to achieve pie-in-the-sky pi dreams.
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When the passengers on a plane up in the sky are separately seated based on the the digits of the decimal number π—there are three empty seats between the first and second passenger, one empty seat between the second and third passenger, four empty seats between the third and fourth passenger, and so on.
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Some math geeks turned psychologists think that they too could figure out the answer to “What’s the temperature of pi?” without being afflicted with any mental disorders.
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How does one reconcile the value of pi in the sky with the irrational value of pi on earth? Could theologians or theomaticians explain the missing “0.14” bit to the mathematical brethren?
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Unlike synesthesia questions like “What’s the shape of pi?” and “What’s the color of zero?,” whose answers exhibit some common denominator among geeky dyslexics, the answer to “What’s the pH of pi?” remains so far elusive.
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