The glee of (geek) children

[drwex]

This AM my younger informed me that he has named a pet stuffed cephalopod "Octo-Pi".

He carefully explained that this means "pi to the eighth" but confessed he's having trouble calculating it. I offered to help him with that tonight; I hope he's in a mood to accept approximations.

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[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

I talked to him about the infinite nature of pi and how people would write the way you have it in (). He wants to work it out with the first 4-5 digits but he also wants to use a calculator.