{"id":5602,"date":"2013-03-14T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2013-03-14T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:42:37","slug":"3-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5602","title":{"rendered":"3.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pi<\/p>\n<p>Today is national Pi day. Celebrating Pi a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematical_constant\">mathematical constant<\/a>\u00a0that is\u00a0the\u00a0<a title=\"Ratio\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ratio\">ratio<\/a>\u00a0of a\u00a0<a title=\"Circle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circle\">circle<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a title=\"Circumference\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circumference\">circumference<\/a>\u00a0to its\u00a0<a title=\"Diameter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diameter\">diameter<\/a>, and is approximately equal to 3.14159. It has been represented by the Greek letter &#8220;?&#8221; since the mid-18th century, though it is also sometimes written as\u00a0<strong>pi<\/strong>.\u00a0?\u00a0is an\u00a0<a title=\"Irrational number\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irrational_number\">irrational number<\/a>, which means that it cannot be expressed exactly as a\u00a0<a title=\"Fraction (mathematics)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fraction_(mathematics)\">ratio<\/a>\u00a0of two\u00a0<a title=\"Integers\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Integers\">integers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pi Today is national Pi day. Celebrating Pi a mathematical constant\u00a0that is\u00a0the\u00a0ratio\u00a0of a\u00a0circle&#8216;s\u00a0circumference\u00a0to its\u00a0diameter, and is approximately equal to 3.14159. It has been represented by the Greek letter &#8220;?&#8221; since the mid-18th century, though it is also sometimes written as\u00a0pi.\u00a0?\u00a0is an\u00a0irrational number, which means that it cannot be expressed exactly as a\u00a0ratio\u00a0of two\u00a0integers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1595],"tags":[2631],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5603,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions\/5603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}