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Transcript: Celebrating March 14 as 'Pi Day'
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- March 14, 2008
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RACHEL MARTIN
NPR The Bryant Park Project
03-14-2008
Celebrating March 14 as 'Pi Day'
Host: RACHEL MARTIN
Time 7:00-9:00 AM
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RACHEL MARTIN, host:
Hey, check that out.
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MARTIN: OK, we've said it a few times during the show. It's March 14, 2008, Pi Day if you didn't know. No, not the apple kind of pie, blueberry, it's a numerical pi. You know 3.14, March 14th, 3-14, get it? Pi is irrational and transcendental and sometimes even mysterious. Maybe you've seen the 1988 psychological thriller called "Pi" about a mathematical genius Max Cohen who sees patterns in everything.
(Soundbite of movie "Pi")
Mr. SEAN GULLETTE: (As Maximillian Cohen) If you graph the ...