3 thoughts on “Geeky Pi Bowl”

  1. Your Pi dish is delightful! I’m a bit of a math geek and enjoy the aspects and lore of transcendent numbers. Have you found inspiration in the number Phi, the Golden Ratio? It’s

    (5^0.5 + 1)/2

    [Add 1 to the square root of 5 then divide the total by 2. It’s ~ 1.6180. ] Project Gutenberg has published a computation of Phi to many decimal places at http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/744/pg744.epub or http://tinyurl.com/4bc9r2j .

    Phi is found again and again in nature and mathematics, the nautilus shell spiral being perhaps the most beautiful example.

    There’s a contemporary book by astrophysicist Mario Livio titled “The Golden Ratio”, subtitled ‘The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number’, ISBN 0-7679-0816-3; Publisher http://www.broadwaybooks.com .

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