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Transcript: Pi Day: An Infinite Number of Ways to Celebrate
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- March 14, 2008
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IRA FLATOW
NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday
03-14-2008
Pi Day: An Infinite Number of Ways to Celebrate
Host: IRA FLATOW
Time 15:00-16:00 PM
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IRA FLATOW, host:
You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow.
And for the rest of the hour, we're going to a math party. The guest of honor is one of the most famous numbers, pi. What is pi? We went to the streets of New York to see how many people knew.
Unidentified Man #1: It's an essential number or it's I know it's in the
Unidentified Man #2: There's a word for it. It's
Unidentified Man #3: It's one of the few transcendental numbers.
Unidentified Woman #1: And you use it in the equation to find, I ...