Yes, besides being a music enthusiast, I am also a math eccentric, especially for irrational numbers... like Pi! In fact, I am a proud owner of a Pi t-shirt. I was so happy to wake up to see Google's new logo for Pi Day!
Now for some Pi facts:
-Not only is today Pi Day, but it is also Albert Einstein's birthday.
-Most ways of celebrating Pi Day include eating pie and discussing it.-The first Pi Day celebration was held in 1988 at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
-The founder of Pi Day was Larry Shaw, a now-retired physicist at the Exploratorium who still helps out with the celebrations.
-MIT mails its acceptance letters on Pi Day.
-On 12 March 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution (HRES 224), recognizing March 14 as National Pi Day.
-Akira Haraguchi, a Japanese mental health counselor recited pi to 100,000 decimal places from memory in 2006. It took him over 16 hours.
-As of January 2010, the record of computed digits, aided by a supercomputer, is almost 2.7 trillion digits.
-The "π" constant is so named because "π" is the first letter of the Greek words περιφέρεια (periphery) and περίμετρος (perimeter), probably referring to its use in the formula to find the circumference, or perimeter, of a circle.
...and perhaps my favorite.
-One man composed a song, "Piece of Pi" that uses the first 220 digits of pi and converts them, using a formula to a violin solo!!
Well, hopefully you learned something about Pi today, so while I go make my celebratory peanut butter pie, get memorizing those digits!
3.
14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128
48111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
44288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091...
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