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Happy Pi Day (3.14)!
It's amazing how Archimedes discovered PI without a computer. Today we can't work without a screen in front of our face.
Reggie wrote:It's amazing how Archimedes discovered PI without a computer. Today we can't work without a screen in front of our face.
Too true, unfortunately, I'm amazed at kids being allowed to use devices in school to do their math for them these days. We weren't even allowed to use a calculator.
We were only allowed to use slide rules -- which of course, most everyone had no idea how to use.
Ahhhh I missed pi day! (I made waffles tho... so at least I had something sweet?).
I think I've seen a slide ruler once growing up, never did learn how those work. LOL I also wonder how an abacus is used... time to hit up Google.
-Liz
1. Never to late to eat pie.
2. I could never figure out a slide rule.....I'm told only engineers understand those.
4. I remember at one point learning about how an abacus worked. Maybe it was history class? But it didn't stick to my brain at all. And then calculators came, and that was all she wrote.
