[Leica] Pi Day

[Henning Wulff]

Nice pictures, Herbert, and I am also happy to see that the museum went to this length to celebrate Pi Day. Math is given way too little emphasis in North America, where all sorts of beliefs are held to be equal or superior to scientific knowledge.

Henning



On 2015-03-17, at 6:12 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> The Computer History Museum went slightly nuts last Saturday. In the U.S., we write March 14, 2015 as 3/14/15, which are the first nine digits of pi. So, they decided to celebrate Pi Day, something that appears once a century. Alas, in Europe, where it would be written 14/3/15, you guys are out of luck. If April had 31 days, you too could have a Pi Day, but alas, that is not to be. Because the next three digits of Pi are 926, they also decided to delay the usual 9 AM opening to 9:26 on that day.
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> The Computer History Museum has also become heavily involved in what is called K12 education (roughly 6 to 17 year olds). They hold special tours and workshops for school groups.
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> A big push for the older kids has been the appearance of the Raspberry Pi, a credit card size computer running Linux and having available compilers for at least a half dozen programming languages. They are made in the UK. The first model cost under $20; the second (presumably more memory and faster processor) under $100. The user supplies a keyboard and monitor.
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> So the Museum was mobbed by kids of various sizes and shapes. It was a mob scene and hard to photograph, though I saw one guy with an SLR and a most lethal looking lens in action. I managed to get a couple of nice shots with my unobtrusive Lumix LX5. The first is two young girls working on some problem:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010688.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010688.jpg.html>
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> the second is happiness at having solved it: 
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010690.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010690.jpg.html>
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Henning Wulff
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