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		<title>In my handwriting, thousands of digits of Pi</title>
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Yes folks, you have read that correctly.  For obvious reasons, I felt it would be excellent to render Pi using my handwriting.  And why not?  After all, it&#8217;s a famous series of non-repeating digits; perhaps the most famous irrational number of all time.
How many digits are in this picture?  I don&#8217;t know.  I could count, [...]]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_30" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://iandennismiller.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/in-my-handwriting-the-first-thousands-of-digits-of-pi.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-30  " title="in my handwriting, thousands of digits of pi" src="http://iandennismiller.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/in-my-handwriting-the-first-thousands-of-digits-of-pi-300x164.png" alt="in my handwriting the first thousands of digits of pi" width="300" height="164" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">in my handwriting, thousands of digits of pi</p></div>
<p>Yes folks, you have read that correctly.  For obvious reasons, I felt it would be excellent to render Pi using my handwriting.  And why not?  After all, it&#8217;s a famous series of non-repeating digits; perhaps the most famous irrational number of all time.</p>
<p>How many digits are in this picture?  I don&#8217;t know.  I could count, but so could you.  It&#8217;s thousands, however.  Go ahead; zoom in.  Count the digits.  Look for errors, and if you find any (and if you make it easy for me to believe you) then I&#8217;ll do this over again&#8230;  but I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s right.  I based this work on the <a href="http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/digits.html">100,000 Digits of Pi page</a>.</p>
<p>Why was it important to do this in my handwriting?  Because of &#8220;obviously.&#8221;  &#8230;as in, the self-evidence of writing pi in the style of my own handwriting is axiomatic, and requires no justification.  In fact, simply asking &#8220;why would anyone do this&#8221; is what needs to be justified.</p>
<p>So, there you have it.  It&#8217;s Pi, and it&#8217;s my handwriting.  There&#8217;s more to this story, but I shall leave that for another day.</p>
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