Posted by Davin Flateau on 14 Mar 2006 at 11:52 am.
Filed under General.
It’s also March 14… 3/14… or 3.14, or everyone’s favorite transcendental number, Pi. Happy Pi Day! It’s simple enough - just divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter. You’ll get a string of numbers that goes on forever…
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841
971693993751058209749445923078164062862
089986280348253421170679821480865132823
066470938446095505822317253594081284811
174502841027019385211055596446229489549
303819644288109756659334461284756482337
867831652712019091456485669234603486104
543266482133936072602491412737245870066
063155881748815209209628292540917153643
678925903600113305305488204665213841469
51941511609…
Wikipedia tells us the proper time to celebrate the day:
It is usually celebrated at 1:59 PM (in recognition of the six-digit approximation: 3.14159). Some, using a twenty-four-hour clock rather than a twelve-hour clock, say that 1:59 PM is actually 13:59 and celebrate it at 1:59 AM or 3:09 PM (15:09) instead. Parties have been held by the mathematics departments of various schools around the world.
And everyone knows no one parties like mathematicians.
Well, maybe chemists.
The Exploratorium in San Francisco has been celebrating Pi Day for eighteen years now. Can’t remember pi to the 4493rd digit? This T-Shirt may help. Also, find your place in the Universe bysearching pi for your birthday, zip code, phone or lottery numbers.
Robert Speca on 20 Mar 2006 at 1:41 pm: 1
Hi David. I teach Earth Science in Pennsylvania. I love Kansas, and it will be an honor to set up 10,000 dominoes at Exploration Place on Saturday March 25th. Your articles are interesting and humorous. I hope to meet you on Friday or Saturday this week. Do you celebrate Mole Day on October 23rd also?
Robert Speca
Domino Wizard
www.dominoshow.com
robertspeca@hotmail.com