Free Range by Bill Whitehead for March 14, 2016

He was joined last year by a camper who tried to find the last number in the square root of 2.

Now, can you calculate the odds of you sleeping well tonight?

And then the year that Frank Fibonacci forgot how to add 3 plus 5!!

And then the kids asked why they’ve seen trailers rocking.

I always bake pies for Pi day and bring them in to share with my coworkers. This year I made peach, fresh strawberry and bourbon chocolate pecan and I whipped up some fresh heavy cream with just a splash of fresh vanilla bean added to it. Lunch time should be yummy.

He had months of effort into it when they announced the “Pentium Divide Error” which was discovered while looking for giant prime numbers.

Pi is easy to calculate as a binary floating point number. Converting the binary fraction back into a readable decimal number is a major effort.

Statistically speaking, that was going to happen.

It’s all fun and games until someone tries to divide by zero!