Entry 1116 — A Wordless Long Division Poem
I hope to continue work on the poem I had notes for here yesterday but for some reason got working on the following instead of it this morning:
It will be part of my next Scientific American blog entry. I’ll be using it as part of another lesson in mathematical poetry taxonomy–an illustration of something without verbal language that is nonetheless a poem.
It seems to me appealingly goofy. To understand it, you need to guess what the circle represents. And the remainder. And, just in case you forgot, pi times the length of a circle’s diameter gives you its circumference.
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