I am the number that is infinite

Chatty claims we often get the same answer on these quizzes. Though she may be the boundless infinity, I am the number with the inifinite string...pi!

In high school, there was a Pi festival, about as nerdy as you could possibly get with piE eating contests and a contest to see who could memorize pi to the longest string. For those of you who don't know, pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle (the length of the line that creates the circle) and its diameter (the line that goes across the circle). For all circles, this ratio is the value of pi which is roughly 3.1415926..... This string is actually infinite (as far as we know) and thousands of mathematicians around the world are trying to count out pi for as far along the decimal chain as it can go! And let me tell you, if one of these folks ever finds that pi stops, the mathematical world as we know it might fall flat on its face. It's one of those things that if ever found, would send mathematician's heads spinning.

Unlike numbers like one half (0.5) or even one third (.333333333) which either end or go one forever with one number, pi does not. It's like the trail of birdcrumbs that people are following just to see if the road ends, thus as of this point leading them onto the road of infinity. As I recall, there was one girl at school who was particularly obsessed with memorizing pi, she correctly spoke pi to 300 digits. Talk about someone ready for med school!

There's something quite poetic about pi. How comparing two parts of a circle leads to a number with an infinite end, no precise, exact number to speak of, only an approximation. In that way, poetry does not have a precise end, though we may all start on the same blank sheet.

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