# A Joke of Pi

Recently I read a joke from a book named It must be Beautiful: Great Equation of Modern Science (Farmelo, 2002).

The author wrote a joke:

A mathematician, a physicist, an engineer and a biologist are together and someone asks them what is the value of $\pi$.

The mathematician responds crisply that it is “equal to the circumference of a circle divided by its diameters”.

The physicist counters that is is “3.141593, give or take 0.000001”

The engineer says it is “about 3”.

And, the biologist asks back, “What is $\pi$?”

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Someone was not happy with this joke and asked me what is the value of $\pi$.

## Author: zkchong

I have been teaching in university for 7 years and currently a data science engineer at Axiata Digital Advertising, Malaysia.

## 2 thoughts on “A Joke of Pi”

1. somebody says:

you’re right. this is full of absurd ideas.

2. xiaoyaotaigong says:

For me, pai is something that you can eat when you hungry; a thing to be remembered when exam come…