Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi Day!



I recently read Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day, a compelling description of his experience with savant-level mathematical and linguistic abilities, autistic-spectrum challenges and synesthesia. Among his accomplishments: learning Icelandic in a week, and memorizing pi to a mind-boggling 22,514 decimal places, by visualizing it not as a number but as a landscape. (Oh, as a landscape... Yeah, right. Duh. Why didn't I think of that?)



Since the rest of us might appreciate the relationship between a circle's diameter and circumference a little more, um, prosaically, here are some more ways to have fun with today's date:



Pi in Music converts the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence, based on the notes you select for each integer zero through nine.



Pi in Colors, on the other hand, depicts the wacky number by associating each integer zero through nine with a differently colored pixel.

Thanks to Perfect Duluth Day and Infosthetics for the references and images.