{"id":27314,"date":"2024-03-14T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=27314"},"modified":"2024-03-19T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T19:06:11","slug":"arrias-and-his-muse-pi-day-or-pie-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/arrias-and-his-muse-pi-day-or-pie-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrias and His Muse: Pi Day (Or Pie Day?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arrias_muse1.png\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" \/>My Muse poked me again this morning, but light-hearted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Archimedes wasn\u2019t the very first,<\/p>\n<p>But he did get pretty near,<\/p>\n<p>And Ptolemy was very handy<\/p>\n<p>In addressing a sphere.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese also chipped in,<\/p>\n<p>And Liu Hui shaved it even closer,<\/p>\n<p>Though to the average schoolboy<\/p>\n<p>It is still a poser.<\/p>\n<p>Aryabhata of Pataliputra,<\/p>\n<p>A physics and mathematics hero,<\/p>\n<p>Helped to get it even closer,<\/p>\n<p>But was he thinking zero?<\/p>\n<p>But still every high school student<\/p>\n<p>From Alaska to Tanzania,<\/p>\n<p>Will at first be confused,<\/p>\n<p>And struggles with the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Because it\u2019s right in front of them,<\/p>\n<p>As everyone is aware,<\/p>\n<p>Look around the kitchen when eating ribs,<br \/>\nPie are round, cornbread are square.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2024 Arrias<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Muse poked me again this morning, but light-hearted&#8230; Archimedes wasn\u2019t the very first, But he did get pretty near, And Ptolemy was very handy In addressing a sphere. The Chinese also chipped in, And Liu Hui shaved it even closer, Though to the average schoolboy It is still a poser. Aryabhata of Pataliputra, A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27316,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27314\/revisions\/27316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}