Thursday, November 12, 2009

Working on a stats exam, I was reminded of yet another bizarre dream episode.

I was a designer. I was producing a line of tracksuits called "Pi Couture." Featuring, as you might guess, the digits of pi printed on the backside. The number of digits varied with the size of the tracksuit bottoms...so the tiny little ones would be "3.14" and the ones for someone like me would be "3.141592" and then there would be some sizes that said "3.141592653589793"

And of course, that's a real design FAIL right there (at least in the real world) because (a) very few women are going to want to walk around with an irrational number on their bums and (b) no woman larger than a "3.14" is going to want to advertise that fact. (And, the world of vanity sizing being what it is, there's probably have to be a "3" for the women who are really really super tiny.*)

(*there's an old April Fool's Day hoax (Snopes site: 'ware the pop-ups) about some southern state "redefining" pi as 3 because supposedly "that was good enough for the writers of the Bible.")

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