{"id":26596,"date":"2019-03-20T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=26596"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:22:59","slug":"a-slice-of-the-pi-day-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/a-slice-of-the-pi-day-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"A Slice Of The Pi&#8230;Day Celebration!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We here at Digilent are always excited for the holidays, especially ones that involve mathematical constants and sweet treats! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So one can imagine how particularly we were recently, as it was time to celebrate Pi Day 2019!<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pi.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pi.png 746w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pi-600x398.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To celebrate, we not only indulged in some office-wide delicacy&#8217;s, but we also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackster.io\/100311\/estimating-pi-with-a-cora-z7-running-linux-03995b\">estimated Pi with a Cora Z7<\/a> to help demonstrate just how fast the board really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer? About as fast as it took us to demolish almost an entire Safeway pie. Which is to say very, very fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sweettreat.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sweettreat.png 852w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sweettreat-600x398.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sweettreat-768x509.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><figcaption>The remainder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope that all of you had a wonderful Pi Day celebration as well, and make sure to check out the full<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackster.io\/100311\/estimating-pi-with-a-cora-z7-running-linux-03995b\"> Hackster project for more information on  <br>\u00a0benchmarking the processors of the Cora Z7 variants!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-26596 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='26596' data-nonce='fd7a0819bd' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-26596 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-26596 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='26596' data-nonce='fd7a0819bd' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-26596 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-26596 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See how we celebrated Pi Day here at Digilent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":26598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[1553],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4485],"class_list":["post-26596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-digilent"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Slice Of The Pi...Day Celebration! 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