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The FreeDOS Project

If you're curious about last week's #PiDay article that used a FreeDOS program to "measure" π by counting pixels, here's a follow-up.

It's about how to write an academic journal article in groff— but really, it was an excuse to explain why the method gives π=2.828 🤓

technicallywewrite.com/2025/03

Short version: it measures a square inside the circle, so the best you can get is 8cos(π/4) or π=2✓2

*Could be explained better, but the diagrams look really nice! 🤣

technicallywewrite.comTechnically We Write
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KSev 🇳🇴🌻🚲 :donor:

“[Pi Day] was founded [in 1988] by physicist Larry Shaw, who at the time was on staff at the Exploratorium, a science museum in San Francisco. It began at an Exploratorium staff retreat in Monterey, California, which Shaw and his colleagues took to mark three years since the death of the museum's founder, Frank Oppenheimer, the brother of famed Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer.”
#PiDay #maths flip.it/IF.7Au

CBS News · What is Pi Day? Things to know about today's holiday celebrating an iconic mathematical symbolBy Emily Mae Czachor
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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁
Pi Day is only one day, but pie can be had every day! My latest food column is up, along with some tasty handheld pies available in town!

Thanks to these fine people for sharing a slice of their time with me :)

Dianne and Henry from Sweet and Savoury Pie
Nathalia from Melina's Kitchener
Adam from Damask Resto-Market

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/pi-day-pie-sweet-and-savoury-pie-company-damask-melinas-1.7482688

#Canada #FoodWriting #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty #GuelphFoodies #Waterloofoodies #kitchenerfoodies #CambridgeFoodies #KitchenerWaterlooFoodies #kweats #CanadianFood #MiddleEasternFood #GreekFood #LatinoFood #Pies #PiDay #ExploreWaterlooRegion #CBC #Mastonom #Food
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Walt Mankowski

I had a great time celebrating Pi Day yesterday. I made 22 contacts on FT8, including Germany and Brazil (my first-ever contact in South America!) Earlier in the day I made a dozen or so voice contacts on 40m. We were taking turns talking and logging so I’m not sure exactly how many, but they were mainly between Maine and Virginia. It was my first extended session doing voice on HF and it was great to have a chance to get into the rhythm and lingo of it. #hamradio #amateurradio #piday

A map of my FT8 contacts yesterday. Green is 20m and yellow is 15m.
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