Happy Pi Day!

 Any other Calculus afficionados out there? 

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Approaching Perfection

 

Stepwise by approximation

Like words stacked together

Fewer = poetic

But when slicing functions into infinitesimal portions

More = precision

Polar opposites

Limit approaching infinity

Almost. There.

But always traveling.

 

A virtuosic symphony

Is strung from motifs

That flow like a cascading waterfall,

Each black marking summoning a droplet,

Converging into roaring thunder

Or flying in a light, racing trance

Reverberating

Ebbing to a deep, desperate melody

As the nuances of boundless notes

Assemble into a masterpiece.                                             

 

Or a portrait, coaxed into being from delicate brushstrokes

Or, perhaps, loose geometric figures

The style and the strokes narrate the story

Summoning a moment in time

Using meticulous intricacies to approximate it

And letting the viewer determine the rest.

 

You can integrate using Newtons’ best

(with a symbol vaguely resembling a treble clef)

To put Archimedes’ quandary to the test

Polygons approaching the fundamental enigma

Of smoothing to a circle, equidistant radii

Sides snapping to yet smaller portions, dx

Each providing a piece of smooth topology.

 

Supercomputers

Can calculate pi to trillions

Trillions of tiny notes

Cascading endlessly

To describe a fundamental perfection of the universe

That numbers can only approximate

The musical symphony

The masterpiece

The circumference

(divided by diameter)

π

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