Re: Who first invented Pi ?

Who first invented Pie ? ( Sorry ’ couldn’t resist ) … :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Pie, as well as Pi, are immutable facts of nature. Neither needed to be invented. Only discovered. While having access to flour, butter, and apples. Or cherries. Mmmmm… Cherry pie.

Damn good pi! :smiley:

Is this the article being discussed?

On my computer, what I assume are supposed to be pi characters in that article are just showing up as p’s. (I checked multiple browsers.)

I think pie started with a portable meal of cooked meat wrapped in a pastry and baked or fried. It was for on the road eating.
I think Martha Stewart may have told me that.

Pi - "Originally defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter."

Pie is called “pie” because it is round. What has this to do with “Pi”, you ask? Well, my great, great, great, great (I forget how many “greats”) grandfather, a Greek
mathematician who married into my Italian family and was never truly accepted because he was a foreigner, invented “Pie” and decided to give it that name because of its circular relationship to “Pi”.

It’s not something I brag about, but you did ask.

Please. Everybody knows that pie are squared.

(Low hanging fruit?)

Same problem on my work computer. Is this something that got messed up when the site was redesigned? It really needs to be fixed. Currently the article contains confusing nonsense like this:

You got it wrong.

Cornbread are square; Pie are round. I knew nothing good would come of that book-learnin’.

My cornbread are round. I make hand-pies that are crescents. I make cobbler that are rectangles. Alton Brown told me they are pies also. I can’t think of nothing to cook that is squared

(Oh I forgot brownies are squares)

If the article is being fixed, there’s also an error here:

I assume that was supposed to be “multiplying the square of the diameter by the square of eight-ninths.”

Obviously you have never been to Yooperland. UP there they are fond of these things called “pasties” which are basically meat and potatoes (and sometimes cabbage) wrapped and cooked in pastry. That was the working-man’s lunch.

Ye be a clever devil! :smiley:

Yeah, but now I want cornbread…

Yeah, well I am hankering for the cry of √-1.

I remember that from Calculus. The square root of negative one is “i”, which stands for "imaginary. So, something like 7i means 7 x the square root of negative one.

You’ve never cooked a square meal?