Science
Slice into this ‘Pi Planet’ that swiftly orbits its star every 3.14 days – SYFY WIRE
Like Obi-Wan’s famous characterization of The Force as an elemental entity that surrounds us and penetrates us, the mysterious number of pi is a permanence whose presence is everywhere — even apparently in heavenly bodies orbiting ultracool stars.
Like Obi-Wan’s famous characterization of The Force as an elemental entity that surrounds us and penetrates us, the mysterious number of pi is a permanence whose presence is everywhere even apparently in heavenly bodies orbiting ultracool stars.
Pi is represented by , the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, and is a universal mathematical constant as regular as the rising sun, calculated out as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Equal to its approximation of 3.14159, it exist…
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