Why We Need Pi

A cell phone recorded video created on March 14 ,2009, for the Film on the Fly movie contest. The Pi Day story prompt was: "Show how Pi determines the circumference or diameter of a pizza, carousel, Ferris Wheel or any circle near you." Since we were visiting relatives in Wichita, Kansas, today we chose to use the Century II building in our movie. Century II is the convention center in downtown Wichita, and it is shaped like a perfect circle. By calculating the diameter of the building using Google Earth, we were able to calculate the circumference (or perimeter) of the entire building. Learn more about Film on the Fly on http://filmonthefly.ning.com. This was a Speed of Creativity Production - http://www.speedofcreativity.org.

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[KodeLiMe]

@spongah You missed about a trillion digits.

[spongah]

it's not just 3.14 it's 3.1415926535897932384626433832­795028841971693993751058209749­445923078164062862089986280348­253421170679821480865132823066­470938446095505822317253594081­284811174502841027019385211055­596446229489549303819644288109­756659334461284756482337867831­652712019091456485669234603486­104543266482133936072602491412­737245870066063155881748815209­209628292540917153643678925903­600113305305488204665213841469­519415116094330572703657595919­530921861173819326117931051185­480744623799627495673518

[dtkuropatwa]

That was adorable! Your kids were great Wes. ;-)

[KOCETV]

Welcome to Film on the Fly, Wesley! What a way to "come out of the gate!" I love the writing on the window to show the calculations for the circumference (with the circle in the background) and the application of Google Earth. Nice work! Thanks for participating!!