Offprint · Wondering About Pi · No. 3.141

Pie

The crust is a proof.

A pie is a circle you are allowed to cut.

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.

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

“Pie.” Wondering About Pi, no. 3.141 (24 September 2026). wap.mom/pie/