Pi Day
For all the math geeks it was a special day yesterday. The last week it was voted to officially recognise 14th of March as the Pi day.
Pi is a mathematical constant, an irrational number which is approximated to 3.14. Thus the 14th day of the 3rd month, which is March the 14th, has been chosen to celebrate the Pi day. Truncating the value of Pi to the 7th digit gives us 3.1415926, which makes 14th of March, 01:59:26 pm.
Apparently, since Pi can also be approximated by the fraction 22/7, people call 22nd of July as the Pi Approximation Day.
Two interesting trivia I found about:
- 14th of March happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday. He was born in the year 1879.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology often mails out its acceptance letters to be delivered to its prospective students on the Pi Day.
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