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pi-ku
n.
A haiku on the theme of the mathematical constant pi. Also: piku. [pi + haiku.]
Example Citations:
Students will spend the morning in 35-minute sessions that include math competitions, integrated math and art workshops featuring origami, pi-ku writing, and a pi(e) eating contest.
—Kari Tutwiler, " Pi and pie to fuel math competition at WSU Tri-Cities: http://news.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=35439," Washington State University News Center, March 11, 2013
Festivities will include pie eating/pi solving contest, pie for sale at the Pie Café, Piku (think Haiku with a twist).
—" Third Annual Jersey City Pi-e Day March 9th: http://www.jerseybites.com/2013/03/third-annual-jersey-city-pi-e-day-march-9th/," Jersey Bites, March 9, 2013
Earliest Citation:
Fifth-graders in Tiffany Ebright and Stefanie Cook's classes at Fulton Avenue School \#8 in Oceanside celebrated Pi Day in honor of Albert Einstein's birthday. Pi is the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle. The children wrote a pi-ku, designed pi posters and competed in a pie-eating contest.
—Mary Ellen Pereira, "Jericho's team bowls them over," Newsday, April 9, 2006
Notes:
Why, look, it's yet another term posted in honor of Pi Day, which is March 14. In case you've forgotten, March 14 can be written as 3/14, and the decimal expansion of pi begins with 3.14, ergo pi lovers celebrate their favorite transcendental number every March 14.
Related Words:
dozenalist
ethnomathematics
fuzzy math
mathlete
micro-fiction
piem
Categories:
Writing
Science (General)

New words. 2013.