Happy Pi Day 2010 to geeks everywhere
It’s Pi Day again; the annual celebration of the ratio of any circle’s circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space. Which in the real world equates to a day spent walking in circles around shrines dedicated to Pi, while eating pie. Naturally.
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 every year. Why March 14? Because 3/14 equates to 3.14, the first three digits of Pi. March 14 also just happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday. So a celebration of his life and work also comes into play.
Pi Day was created in 1988 by now-retired physicist Larry Shaw, and has grown massively in popularity ever since. To celebrate Pi Day, you could follow tradition by walking in circles before eating fruit pies.
Or you could try and memorize and then recite as many digits of Pi as possible. Which could be a chore as Pi is an infinite number. The record is currently 22,514 as managed by Daniel Tammet in 2004, though this woman’s 100 digits is impressive enough.
Happy Pi Day 2010 to geeks everywhere. I don’t think I’ll be participating in any of the difficult math celebrations this year but I may eat a fruit pie. Just to be involved, you know.
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