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Radian Pizza

March 31, 2017

A pizzeria charges $3 per radian, so a whole pizza (2π radians) costs an irrational $18.85.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-03-31-radian-pizza/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

[Sign] "Pizza By the Radian! $3 per radian."

Customer: "How much for a whole pizza?"

Cashier: "$18 and change. Very weird change."

Topics
Trigonometry › RadiansGeometry › CirclesGeometry › AnglesNumber & Arithmetic › Irrational NumbersNumber & Arithmetic › PiNumber & Arithmetic › Rates
Level
High School
Themes
FoodMoney & ShoppingPuns