Pi
The number of die-hard Pogo fans is shrinking, just like The Greatest Generation. Pogo was a comic strip from the gifted Walt Kelly, light-hearted and cynical, simple and sophisticated, and now nearly forgotten except by aging true believers. So we need to explain that our opening salvo on this review comes from the collected wisdom of Pogo, whose most famous statement was, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." He also corrected an earlier writer who offered the mathematical formula "pi r squared," to determine the circumference of a circle when the diameter is known. Pi has an infinite number of numbers, beginning with 3.14159. ...
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The number of die-hard Pogo fans is shrinking, just like The Greatest Generation. Pogo was a comic strip from the gifted Walt Kelly, light-hearted and cynical, simple and sophisticated, and now nearly forgotten except by aging true believers. So we need to explain that our opening salvo on this review comes from the collected wisdom of Pogo, whose most famous statement was, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." He also corrected an earlier writer who offered the mathematical formula "pi r squared," to determine the circumference of a circle when the diameter is known. Pi has an infinite number of numbers, beginning with 3.14159. ...
