Comments on: Ambigram: pieā‰ 3.14 http://divisbyzero.com/2009/07/01/pi-ambigram/ A blog about math, puzzles, teaching, and academic technology Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:59:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dave Richeson http://divisbyzero.com/2009/07/01/pi-ambigram/#comment-438 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:37:38 +0000 http://divisbyzero.com/?p=1791#comment-438 My friend Chris Francese (a classics professor here at Dickinson) shared with me a Latin poem in which the first line is repeated as the middle line and the last line, and it can also be read using the first letters or the last letters of each line!

The poem is here along with Chris’s discussion, translation, and reading of it.

]]> By: Dave Richeson http://divisbyzero.com/2009/07/01/pi-ambigram/#comment-435 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:29:18 +0000 http://divisbyzero.com/?p=1791#comment-435 Actually, I just looked and there is a wikipedia page on this very square. It has some neat translations. Cool.

]]> By: Dave Richeson http://divisbyzero.com/2009/07/01/pi-ambigram/#comment-434 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:18:54 +0000 http://divisbyzero.com/?p=1791#comment-434 That’s great. Thanks for the link. I’ll send the link to my friend who is a Classics professor. He should be able to translate the words.

]]> By: wordsbybob http://divisbyzero.com/2009/07/01/pi-ambigram/#comment-433 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:10:17 +0000 http://divisbyzero.com/?p=1791#comment-433 I like this kind of visual. I posteda palindrone square on my blog some time ago. Check it out.

http://tinyurl.com/o8fdaa

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