Pi Day Fun Facts! [Starts With A Bang] "Now go on, boy, and pay attention. Because if you do, someday, you may achieve something that we Simpsons have dreamed about for generations: you may outsmart someone!" - Homer Simpson Today, March 14th, is known tongue-in-cheek as Pi Day here in the United States, as 3.14 (we write the month first) are the first three well-known digits to the famed number, π. As you know, it's the ratio of a ... Pi Day sliced 3.14 ways Today marks the mathematically quirky Pi Day, celebrated because the month and day of today's date — 3/14 — correspond to the first three digits of π, the unique number that has infinite decimal places but begins with 3.14. Jonathan M. Borwein: Pi Day in America Why, might you ask, should anyone want to celebrate a mathematical constant which allows you to calculate the area inside a circle? As unlikely as it may seem, the number pi, or 3.14159... has been crucial to the development of modern life. A Tasty Pi Day Hypothetical; MIT's Synthesizer of the Gods We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: Shakespeare may hiding in Pi, how to play the world's largest synthesizer, and a Sarah Palin-Julianne ... Popular 'Pi Day' events served up at WOU One residential hall is serving pie in the Werner University Center and math students are guiding local elementary school kids in problem solving at Western Oregon University. Can You Determine Pi From the Digits of Pi? Happy Pi Day! Isn't Pi Day one of the best holidays all year? For last year's Pi Day, I determined a value of Pi without even using a circle . How can you top that? Pi Day means cheap pies — and beer — at District of Pi The nerdiest holiday of the year? My vote goes for Pi Day, celebrated every March 14 because 3/14 looks a lot like 3.14, the first three digits of the mathematical contstant used to help determine the circumference of a circle. Read full article >> Pi Day! Geeks eat pie, honor the circle today Geeks, mathematicians, and lovers of all things circular today celebrate Pi Day -- a national holiday that honors π, one of world's most mysterious and awe-inspiring infinite mathematical constants. At Sherman Oaks school, Pi Day went by the numbers In Sherman Oaks on Wednesday, pie made pi's day. Millikan Middle School went all out to honor one of math's most famous numbers: 3.14. Otherwise known as pi. The date was ideal: March 14. The number, which represents the relationship... Constants clash on pi day Celebrate pi's annual shindig with baking and Shakespeare – unless of course you're a tau-ist
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