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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Do any of the millions of google hits for “the value of pie” represent people who truly confuse 3.1415 with a pastry-lined food? Or with pie-charts? There are people who write “pi chart” too, so it’s a vicious circle.
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Talk about low hanging fruit. We seemed to have overlooked this obvious eggcorn.
The eggcorn turn has to do with the shape of a pie, I should think. Speakers could easily assume that the mathematical function made some reference to the pastry’s circular shape.
“Pi charts” go the other way—speakers who are familiar with the mathematical ratio might assume that the circle part of the ratio was represented in the graph’s shape.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Looks like a low-hanging typo to me. I’d definitely need some other evidence before I’d be willing to believe that people think the mathematical function is named after the dessert. Love the pictures of pi pies, however—just in time for American Thanksgving.
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