{"id":4069,"date":"2024-10-29T20:55:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T02:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/?post_type=story&#038;p=4069"},"modified":"2024-11-06T01:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T08:30:22","slug":"digits-span-the-world","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/story\/digits-span-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Digits Span the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Ever wanted to own a digit of Pi?\u00a0 This is your big chance.\u00a0 No kidding.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1325\" style=\"width: 201px;\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_1017-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Kind of like owning a star, right?\u00a0 Artists Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher are embarking on an infinitely ambitious project.\u00a0 They are hand-casting sculptures of each digit in Pi\u2019s sequence, and shipping them all over the world, one by one.\u00a0 But there\u2019s more.\u00a0 In the words of the artists:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p>\u201cAs the work ships around the world, we will track the expansion of the project\u2019s database with a\u00a0<strong>web-based visualized map<\/strong>, pinpointing three elements of each sculpture: the geo-locations, the individual numbers and their specific position along the sequence of this transfinite number. This data will be available in real-time and visualized on an interactive world map, connecting each sculpture and its collector into a\u00a0<strong>unique global community<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Anyone worth their Pi Day street-cred will need to have a digit on their shelf. And this project, as you can imagine, can and will span decades. Centuries. In fact, with 22 trillion known digits and 7 billion people on the planet, well, Chris and Patrick can keep busy making and sending out digits for quite some time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/piprojectmap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the project\u2019s website<\/a>\u00a0to learn more, and to join this infinitely exclusive club!<\/h5>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wanted to own a digit of Pi?  This is your big chance.  No kidding.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of like owning a star, right?  Artists Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher are embarking on an infinitely ambitious project.  They are hand-casting sculptures of each digit in Pi\u2019s sequence, and shipping them all over the world, one by one.  But there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4484,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"stories-cat":[45],"class_list":["post-4069","story","type-story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories-cat-art-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story\/4069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"stories-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories-cat?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}