For the record - March 18, 2012
Celebrating pi: An article in the March 16 LATExtra section about Millikan Middle School’s celebration of pi misspelled the last name of teacher Michelle Yamasaki as Tamasaki. Also, the article described pi as an “infinite number.” In fact, pi is a finite number, with a value between 3 and 4. Its decimal representation, however, has an infinite number of digits (3.14159...).
“Bully”: An article in the March 6 Calendar section about the controversy surrounding the documentary “Bully” described a screening at Fairfax High School at which a sobbing ninth-grade student confronted other students in the theater after the film had concluded. The student was an 11th-grader.
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