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We started an email newsletter back in 2002 as “The Focus.” We kept that up for some time and then made the plunge into blogging around 2008. Over the years, thousands of students and engineers from around the world have told us that our blog is an invaluable tool to them. If you can’t find what you are looking for, don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Fun with Math and Pie for PADT’s 2025 Pi Day Celebration

March just sort of snuck up on us and before you know it, we are celebrating another Pi Day here at PADT. For a while now we have been celebrating with fresh pies and a math quiz, and this year was n...

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Hike Run Ski Pi(e): Team Building at PADT

Last week was a big, and diverse, week for "team building" at PADT. We learned some things and "bonded" in not-as-nerdy as you would think ways. A fun week had by...

Happy PI Day: 3.14

Best wishes to everyone who loves math and enjoys being irrational and transcendental. Have you ever really thought about the fact that dividing the distance around a circle by the width of a circ...

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