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Yesterday marked the Mathematics Department’s seventh annual Pi Day, and the afternoon’s festivities featured recitation competitions, eating contests, and a musical performance—all in the name of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
“Just like somebody likes to remember poetry, I like math, so I like to remember pi,” said Rezny, an applied math concentrator who has practised reciting pi for six years and is a three-time winner of the department’s pi-recitation...
“Hai!” Elkies said, using the Japanese word for “yes” to confirm Zhou’s Japanese recitation.
"And now would you please choose a number from one to 10 describing your pain - one being almost no pain and 10 the worst pain imaginable." The ER nurse's voice seemed to trail off as she got to the end of the mandated recitation.
The bulk of “Out of Iraq” is a recitation of historical British and American blunders in the Middle East, followed by an excoriation of the Bush administration’s conduct in the present war. “In previous chapters we have discussed why...