Posted on 03/14/2020 7:25:22 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Founded in 1988 at the Exploratorium, Pi (π) Day has become an international holiday, celebrated live and online all around the world. The numbers in the date (3/14) match the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi (π).
What is π, anyway? Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter; the answer (whether for a pie plate or a planet) is always approximately 3.14, a number we represent with the Greek letter π. Keep calculating π’s digits with more and more accuracy—as mathematicians have been doing for 4,000 years—and you’ll discover they go on literally forever, with no pattern.
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Pi Day needs to be renamed Democrat Day because it is irrational.
Well that does it .
Im buying ice cream for my Pi
https://socratic.org/questions/is-pi-a-rational-irrational-number-natural-whole-or-integer
...and FWIW, I would never argue w/ a Sister of Notre Dame. :)
My daughter’s wedding anniversary, 3.14.15... Yes, it was deliberate. They’re both kind of nerdish.
Ha... good one
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03-14-15, at 9:02:39.215387592 had a nice ring to it.
But! Greenwich standard time? Or Eastern DST?
This year, on the 03-14-2020? Meh.
Non-ironically, most people learn to use a rounded version of Pi.
The ancient Greek approximation was 22/7; the Chinese came up with 355/113 (3.1415929, accurate iow to six decimal places).
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