Can You Solve These Pi-Themed Brain Teasers?
This Thursday is Pi Day, the one day of the year devoted to a mathematical constant (it also happens to be Einstein’s birthday). We all learned as kids about how special pi is and have since accepted its cultural status as a geeky totem and a number worth celebrating. But perhaps we should revisit pi through the jaded lens of adulthood. The circumference of a circle is always 3.14… times its diameter. Big whoop! The perimeter of a square is four times its side length, but we don’t assign special significance to the number…