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Wondering About Pi

This is number 3.141.

No. 3.141 · Kitchen · galley proof

Pie

The crust is a proof.

A pie is a circle you are allowed to cut.

A pie that waits for the knife is a theorem with a crust.

Everything about it is measured before it is baked: the flour, the fat, the heat, the time. The oven is the only argument that convinces a room.

A pie that waits for the knife is a theorem with a crust. π never ends. Pie ends when it is shared.

9-inch10-inch

A 10-inch tin holds 1.23 times what a 9-inch tin holds. Multiply the filling by 1.23.

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10 in
Figure Moving a recipe between tins. The filling scales with the square of the width.

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