Pi, A little more than 3.14

This one is for my student, Joe Sullivan, who memorized Pi farther than any student I ever taught... See you in a few weeks, kiddo.

Japanese and US computer scientists claim to have calculated Pi to five trillion decimal places... If you had all the others memorized, you can go back to work now....
See more at Shecky's Math Frolic.

Nice Martin Gardner Quote

I was reading through a new post at "Math Frolic" by "Shecky" when I noticed a nice quote he had from Ron Graham, the gymnastic- Juggling-Mathematician, about Martin Gardner:

-- In partial remembrance of Martin Gardner (1914-2010) who, in the words of mathematician Ronald Graham, “...turned thousands of children into mathematicians, and thousands of mathematicians into children.” :-)

How nice, and how true.