re: #638 Ojoe

Yes Pi is useful, but, to me, profoundly unaesthetic, and as I appreciate the universe mainly through beauty, I dislike Pi.

And I think your statement that a straight line and a circle are from two different worlds is correct, and I bet the world of nature makes three in this case.

One of my kids has memorized Pi to about 40 decimal places. 400 places is pretty awesome, hats off to you.

Good Night All, again.

My epiphany about calculus (about 5 years out of school!) was that it is a way of trying to reconcile the line with the curve by looking at increasingly smaller segments. Too little, too late, but my mind kept working on it even after there were no longer test grades to worry about…