{"id":390,"date":"2008-12-03T21:44:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T04:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2008-12-03T21:44:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T04:44:24","slug":"geek-thoughts-pi-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/12\/geek-thoughts-pi-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Thoughts: pi gone wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pi, an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irrational_number\">irrational number<\/a>, cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction of integers (and all real-world length units are ultimately <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planck_length\">based<\/a> on integers). So either pi is not a circle&#8217;s ratio of circumference to diameter, or circles don&#8217;t exist (or both!)<\/p>\n<p>More collected Geek Thoughts at http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/geekthoughts.info\/\">geekthoughts<\/a>.info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pi, an irrational number, cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction of integers (and all real-world length units are ultimately based on integers). So either pi is not a circle&#8217;s ratio of circumference to diameter, or circles don&#8217;t exist (or both!) More collected Geek Thoughts at http:\/\/geekthoughts.info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[284],"tags":[530,1179,1177,528,527,529],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekthoughts","tag-frustration","tag-geekthoughts","tag-math","tag-measurement","tag-pi","tag-whatthedefinitionofisis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-6i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}