πku

In honor of π Day (3/14 [1]) I composed some πkus. A πku is like a haiku, but instead of having three lines (5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables), a πku has five lines: 3 syllables, 1 syllable, 4 syllables, 1 syllable, and 5 syllables—corresponding to the first five digits of π.[2] So, without further ado, here are the πkus that I composed:

Will I Find My Name Hidden as ASCII in π? [3]

That depends
on
your computer
and
how long you can wait.



Euler's Identity

One plus e
to
the (i times π)
is
zero. QED.



Pie on π Day

π day just
is
not π day if
there
is no pie to eat.



π [4]

Three point one
four
one five nine two
six
five three five eight nine…

And just for fun, here are the digits of π up to and including the Feynman point [5]:

3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 
  5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 
  8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 
  4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 
  4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 
  4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 
  7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 
  7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 
  3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 
  0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 
  9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 
  6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 
  0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 
  1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 
  4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 
  5187072113 4999999… [6]

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Notes:

[1] What will be really fun is π Day in the year 2015, which will be 3/14/15. And if you're really careful, you might catch the clock on that day when it says 9:26:54.

[2] If you look around on the internet, there are different variations of πkus.

[3] For my name that would be 01001101011000010111010001110100011010000110010101110111001000000100001001100101011011100010000001000011011100100110111101101111011010110010110000100000010010100111001000101110.

[4] My friend Daniel, from Dr. Griffitts' lab suggested this one.

[5] See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman point.

[6] For a million digits of π, see http://www.piday.org/million.php.

Pie attribution:

The no-bake cheesecake with strawberry and blueberry topping (which is close enough to pie for my tastes), was by my lovely wife, Leann.