Monday, March 12, 2007
Church of Pi
Southern Ledger reports on a group of individuals who worship at the Church of Pi:
"This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
"It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known _ so far _ to be more than one trillion digits long.
"They are the acolytes of the church of pi.
"And once a year many of them gather to talk about pi, rhapsodize about it, eat pi-themed foods (actual pie, sure, but so much more), have pi recitation contests and, just maybe, feel a little less sheepish about their unusual passion.
"That day falls on Wednesday this year: March 14. Or 3.14. Obviously."
Imagine what transpires when pi enthusiasts get together. Oh, the debauchery!
"This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
"It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known _ so far _ to be more than one trillion digits long.
"They are the acolytes of the church of pi.
"And once a year many of them gather to talk about pi, rhapsodize about it, eat pi-themed foods (actual pie, sure, but so much more), have pi recitation contests and, just maybe, feel a little less sheepish about their unusual passion.
"That day falls on Wednesday this year: March 14. Or 3.14. Obviously."
Imagine what transpires when pi enthusiasts get together. Oh, the debauchery!
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Monday, March 12, 2007 
