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MATC
Math Club Presents Pi Day Celebration!
The Mathematics
Club of Madison Area Technical College (MATC) will host a Pi Day Celebration
on Friday, March 14, from 9:30 am to 2:30 p.m. at the MATC Truax location,
3550 Anderson St., Madison.
WHAT: Pi
Day Celebration
Includes a math competition, featuring teams from two-year colleges; presentation
on
“The Calculation of Pi,” by Beloit College Professor Ranjan
Roy and a Pie-athelon,
pie-eating contest in which winners consume the most pies in 3 minutes,
14 seconds; a Pi Day Poster competition.
WHERE:
MATC Truax location, 3550 Anderson Street, Madison
WHEN: Friday,
March 14, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• Math competition is from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. in Room 377
• Presentation, “The Calculation of Pi,” 12:15 to 1 p.m.
in Room 142B
• Pie-athalon, pie-eating contest, 1:15 to 1:45 p.m. in the Cafeteria,
lower level, Room 129D
WHO: Hosted
by MATC Math Club. Club advisor is mathematics instructor J. “Sri”
Sriskandarajah. Competition teams from MATC, UW–Fond du Lac, UW–Marshfield/Wood
County, UW–Marathon and UW–Washington County.
MORE: Pi
is a mathematical constant, the ratio of a circle’s circumference
to its diameter, and numerically equal to approximately 3.14. Pi has inspired
poems, limericks, jokes and even a popular film, and was recently calculated
to eight billion digits using super computers.
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Last
Modified:
March 12, 2003
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