{"id":3073,"date":"2021-03-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2021-03-04T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:46:57","slug":"its-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3073","title":{"rendered":"It’s Pi Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No, not Pie Day, Wednesdays at Village Inn, but Pi day, March 14, in honor of pi’s numerical value 3.14159… The three dots are important. The digits go on forever without repeating: it’s what mathematicians call an irrational<\/em> number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pi’s irrationality didn’t stop the Indiana Legislature from attempting to pass a law fixing the value of pi at 3.2 (not even good rounding!). It was February 6, 1897, and the statehouse actually voted in favor. Fortunately, before it became law, a professor from Purdue who just happened to be in the Capitol building that day, talked them out of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passing a law fixing the value of pi to one decimal place is akin to attempting to repeal the law of gravity. Some things just are…and can’t be changed by laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m reminded of the current effort to pass The Equality Act<\/a>, which includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An individual shall not be denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual\u2019s gender identity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does a man become a woman just be declaring himself to be one? If so, women’s sports are dead and so is a woman’s safety in a public restroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I keep praying that our government will come to its senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. (1 Timothy 2.1, 2, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He answered, \u201cHave you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female?” (Matthew 19.4, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, not Pie Day, Wednesdays at Village Inn, but Pi day, March 14, in honor of pi’s numerical value 3.14159… The three dots are important. The digits go on forever without repeating: it’s what mathematicians call an irrational number. Pi’s irrationality didn’t stop the Indiana Legislature from attempting to pass a law fixing the value … Continue reading It’s Pi Day!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Nz","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}