Pi

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Pi has an amusing footnote in Indiana history - Indiana Capital ... (Indiana Capital Chronicle)

A Purdue University mathematics professor accidentally witnessed the passage of legislation to legally change the value of the number pi to 3.2.

Thankfully, the bill died before coming to a vote, but that was due more to Waldo’s lobbying and the negative publicity than any principled opposition based on basic mathematical knowledge. At the same time, newspapers outside the state were picking up the story, correctly making fun of Indiana legislators for being so easily hoodwinked. He claimed God had done just that in March of 1888, directly revealing to him its true value – 3.2 – which made solving the problem possible. The reason it’s impossible: the value of pi (π), which is derived from the ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter. (Of course there was no legal way to charge people for using a number, even back then.) The crazy person in question was Edwin Goodwin, a country doctor and amateur mathematician living 20 miles outside of Evansville.

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Celebrating Pi Day | UDaily (UDaily)

Sebastian Cioaba, professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, explains how the Greek mathematician Archimedes calculated an accurate estimation of pi.

Cioaba grew up in Romania and had never heard of Pi Day until he came to Canada as a graduate student. Likewise, Cioaba said he appreciated his department colleagues, including the late Pam Irwin — yes, PI — for their enthusiasm in helping students. “Students, and people in general, think that the mathematics landscape consists of separate islands that aren’t connected, and that's the opposite. It’s kind of like this lofty dream — they try to become circles, but they never become circles. Greek mathematician Archimedes is credited as one of the first people to calculate an accurate estimation of pi’s value, sometime around 250 BC. It was introduced by English mathematician William Jones in 1706, and use of the symbol was popularized by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, who adopted it in 1737. “When people think about pi, the fixation is so much on the digits — how many you can memorize. Divide the circumference of Earth by its diameter and you get 3.14. “I think any attention to math is great,” Cioaba said. In celebration of the most famous mathematical constant, people eat pie and memorize digits on Pi Day — Tuesday, March 14, or 3/14 as it's written in many countries. Divide the circumference of a baseball by its diameter and you get 3.14. In 2019, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed March 14 as the International Day of Mathematics.

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When is Pi Day 2023? Here are all the local pie-related deals you ... (Cincinnati.com)

Tuesday is Pi Day, the annual celebration every March 14 for all things both Pi (the number) and pie (the food.) Pi, often shortened to 3.14, represents the ...

[Whole Foods Market:](https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/)Use the [Whole Foods app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whole-foods-market/id320029256)to customize an oven-baked pizza starting at $2.99. [Sbarro:](https://sbarro.com/)Receive a free NY XL slice with the purchase of a beverage by joining the Slice Society rewards program. [Marco's Pizza:](https://www.marcos.com/)Save 30% off menu-price pizzas with the code GREAT30. [created by Larry Shaw](https://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/pi-day-history), a former staff physicist at the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco, California, in 1988. [Jet's Pizza:](https://www.jetspizza.com/)Get 20% off all menu-priced pizzas using 314DAY when ordering online. (the numbers that follow 3.14 in Pi), Shaw and his wife, Catherine, set up a table at the museum with fruit pies and a tea urn for the celebration. [Papa John's:](https://www.papajohns.com/)Buy one regular-priced large pizza and get a second large one-topping pizza for $3.14. [Cicis Pizza:](https://cicis.com/)Get $3.14 off a large one-topping pizza when you order online for pickup or delivery with code PIDAY. [Blaze Pizza:](https://www.fire.blazepizza.com/2023-pi-day/?/?utm_campaign=Pi-Day-2023_Leads_Dynamic_9999&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Performance-Max&utm_content=Mixed_Pi-Day-2023_Dynamic_v1_TDV1020&gclid=Cj0KCQjwk7ugBhDIARIsAGuvgPasMvxLEoDLvKwLHQ9vhqQ-CzZFw87GI3Crp1st1cA1WgIY7iEZNgoaAmkIEALw_wcB)Blaze Rewards members at participating locations will receive an offer good for any one 11-inch pizza (excluding crust upgrades) for $3.14. [BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse:](https://www.chewboom.com/2022/03/12/bjs-offers-3-14-mini-deep-dish-pizza-deal-on-march-14-2022/#:~:text=BJ's%20Restaurant%20and%20Brewhouse%20is,each%20on%20March%2014%2C%202022.)Mini deep dish one-topping pizzas for $3.14 each. Although we commonly refer to it in its shortened form, Pi goes on forever. Here's, uh, what happened](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/2023/03/10/theres-filet-o-fish-shrine-cincinnati-mcdonalds-we-visited/69994828007/)

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It's Pi Day! But Don't Forget About These Other Amazing Numbers (ScienceAlert)

March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day because the date, when written as 3/14, matches the start of the decimal expansion 3.14159… the most famous mathematical ...

[you want to nominate](https://www.manilsuri.com/about). [The Conversation](https://theconversation.com) under a Creative Commons license. [iconic role in calculus](https://mathworld.wolfram.com/e.html): It turns out to be the most natural growth factor to track change. You get the remaining 50 percent interest on this $1.50 at the end of the year, which works out to $0.75, giving you $2.25 ($1.50 + $0.75). [First calculated by Euclid](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/102878/the-golden-ratio-by-mario-livio/), this ratio was popularized by Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli, who wrote a [book in 1509](https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-luca-pacioli-s-divina-proportione) extravagantly extolling its aesthetic properties. To understand e, consider "doubling" growth again, but now in terms of the "population" of dollars in your bank account. [Golden Ratio](https://www.britannica.com/science/golden-ratio), phi. What if a war broke out between banks, each offering to compound the same 100 percent interest over shorter and more frequent intervals? This means the rabbits settle down to reproducing with a growth ratio that is no longer 2, but rather, gets closer and closer to the Golden Ratio. But the Supposedly, Leonardo da Vinci, who drew 60 drawings for this book, [incorporated it into the dimensions of Mona Lisa's features](https://monalisa.org/2012/09/12/leonardo-and-mathematics-in-his-paintings/), a choice some claim is responsible for her beauty. Here are my proposals to start filling out the rest of the calendar.

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Grab a Beer and a Slice of Pi to Celebrate Math this 3/14 (Discover Magazine)

It's almost March 14, better known as Pi Day – the only date on the calendar that looks like the first three digits of the mathematical constant, pi (π = 3.14).

[Whizara’s live, online classes taught by university students](https://www.sciencenearme.org/c-programming---learn-coding-from-the-comfort-of-your-home?utm_campaign=piday&utm_medium=partnersite&utm_source=Disco). For example, kids aged 8-17 can learn the basics of coding languages like C++ and Python with That algorithm is used to detect potential new cancer treatments, and each round helps it search for new possibilities faster. You could also celebrate Pi Day by paying a visit to your local museum or science center. But Pi Day offers a special opportunity to go out and celebrate in a unique way! Astronomers from NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute will be there to discuss these topics, and admission is free. Some have special exhibits and movie showings that highlight the many ways math shapes our everyday lives. There will also be trivia and a raffle to win pie. The film is playing at their IMAX theater until March 15. Not only does Pi Day give you an excellent excuse to eat pie, it’s also a fine time to learn and talk about math! Or, use Science Near Me to find more events in your area. Even astronomers rely on math to explore planets and stars far away in space.

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What is Pi Day? The story of the circle (Aljazeera.com)

Circles are some of the most beautiful and versatile shapes in nature. Every March 14, mathematics enthusiasts from all over the globe commemorate Pi Day ...

You’ll see that the crust spans a little more than 3 pies. After washing your hands thoroughly, cut the crust off a pizza pie and lay it across four others. Competitions are held in mathematics classrooms and online to see who can remember the most digits of pi. See how many you can learn: Why don’t you give it a go? Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is approximately 3.14.

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Pi Day 2023: Understanding the connection between March 14 and ... (Business Standard)

Pi Day: UNESCO marked Pi Day as the 'International Day of Mathematics' during the general conference in 2019.

In 2009, the United States House of Representatives officially designated March 14 as Pi Day. Physicist Larry Shaw first recognised Pi Day in 1988. This is because the date looks like 3/14 if one writes it in the month/day format. It plays an important constant in finding out the area of a circle. Pi Day is celebrated globally every year on March 14 to recognise the famous mathematical constant. "As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern.

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Everything you need to celebrate National Pi Day (USA TODAY)

Mark your calendars because Tuesday, March 14 is National Pi Day! It falls on March 14th (a.k.a. 3/14) because 3, 1 and 4 are the first decimal digits in the ...

You can either surprise a friend thanks to the unique shape or enjoy it for yourself. These socks come in a unique package—a pizza box! Thankfully, you don’t have to actually bake a pie to fill your home with a pleasant aroma. Whether you prefer your food gluten-free or you aren’t able to have gluten, you know all too well how difficult it can be to find a pizza you can enjoy. Reviewers love this book for the engaging challenges it includes, saying it's a great bonding experience for kids and parents alike. These will help shape your dough, leading to a thicker crust. [We've tested several popular pie dishes](https://reviewed.usatoday.com/cooking/best-right-now/the-best-pie-dishes) and found the best to be the Emile Henry Modern Classics Pie Dish. To prevent such a tragedy from befalling your pizza, we recommend using This cute and deep pie dish comes in a variety of colors and makes it easy to flute your crust. Pi Day is all about puns, so we think this cute snake shirt about a python (get it?) is the perfect way to express yourself. Planning on baking a deliciously sweet pie for the occasion? For those who aren’t as mathematically minded, Pi Day is an excuse to eat and obsess over “pies,” both of the sweet and savory varieties.

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11 fun facts to help celebrate Pi Day (Big Think)

It's the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!

[many examples of formulae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_formulae_involving_%CF%80) that [one can calculate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_continued_fraction_formula), repetitively, to arrive at a good approximation for π, but the advantage of the three shown above is that they’re simple, straightforward, and provide an excellent approximation with only a relatively small number of terms. Right in that location, before you reach the star Alnath, you’ll find the location of the star cluster Messier 38, where [a red-green-blue color composite](http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M38_LRGB.htm) clearly reveals a familiar shape. For example, using only [the first 10 terms of the final series](https://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=4%2F%281%2B1%2F%283%2B4%2F%285%2B9%2F%287%2B16%2F%289%2B25%2F%2811%2B36%2F%2813%2B49%2F%2815%2B64%2F%2817%2B81%2F%2819%2B100%2F21%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29%29) shown gives the first 8 digits of π correctly, with only a small error in the 9th digit. One of the most bizarre properties of π is that it shows up in some really unexpected places. In fact, one of history’s most famous unsolved math puzzles is to create a square with the same area as a circle using only a compass and straightedge. If you can write down a polynomial equation with integer exponents and factors, and only use sums, differences, multiplication, division, and exponents, all of the real solutions to that equation are real algebraic numbers. By that account, π is irrational, but so is a number like the square root of a positive integer, such as √3. But calculating the area of a regular polygon is easy, especially if you know the formula for the area of a triangle, and realize that any regular polygon can be broken up into a series of isosceles triangles. [Milü](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil%C3%BC), discovered by Chinese mathematician [Zu Chongzhi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zu_Chongzhi), was the best fractional approximation of π for about 900 years: the longest “best approximation” in recorded history. The more sides you make to your regular polygon, in general, the closer you’ll get to the value of π. 2.) π cannot be calculated exactly, because it is impossible to represent as a fraction of exact (integer) numbers. Pronounced “pi” and celebrated worldwide by baking enthusiasts as “Pi day,” it’s also a great opportunity to share some facts about π with the world.

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Happy Pi Day! (wmar2news.com)

Today is March 14th which is known as Pi Day! Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th because the date (3/14) matches the beginning of the decimal expansion: ...

Even though temperatures will be in the low to mid-40s, wind chills (how the air will feel on exposed skin) will range in the upper-20s and low-30s this afternoon. This is why the entire area will be under Wind Advisories beginning at 2 PM. It is used to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

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If the Mathematical Constant Pi Was a Song, What Would It Sound ... (Scientific American)

Jeffery DelViscio: It's Pi Day. [CLIP: Theme music]. This is Scientific American's Science, Quickly. I'm Jeffery DelViscio.

DelViscio: And so, as you sat at the piano, did it continue to make sense? Powell: I think it did and it’s actually a trick I use now. And I tried parts in a major key, parts in a minor key, playing with different arrangements of chunks from pi. It sounded like some of the folk songs I used to sing in choir. I was going to have these tones in my head and that was going to help me recite these digits. Kind of walking up the scale. And had this nice, sort of…I’m going to try to sing it here, forgive me…. And like many children who sang in choir when they were young, I learned to sing on numbers. And a few years prior to that I had covered the world memory championships as a reporter, and I had watched someone memorize a randomly shuffled deck of cards in less than 19 seconds. And I spent a lot of time talking to people about how they pulled off these seemingly impossible feats of memory. Powell: Yeah, so, a few years ago I was challenged to one of these pi digit memorizing competitions. Pi shows up, outside of its circular home, in the motions of springs and pendulums, probability and our 365-day calendar.

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Ann Arbor boy can recite 1300 pi digits — and won't stop until he ... (Detroit Free Press)

Third grader Keshav Hebsur loves Roblox, soccer, basketball and numbers. His latest obsession is memorizing pi.

We're very proud of him and his teacher, especially, has seen a big change in his motivation and attention," she said. Keshav was recently diagnosed with attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Rosha Hebsur said. That takes up about an hour every day." reciting more than 15,000 digits per day (since 2006). More: He's developed this ability to chunk stuff." ... My first sheet was 200 and once I got the 200, I made it 250. Then 500, and then my uncle made it 1,000, and then I printed out a sheet to 1,550." "He is now up to 1,296 digits. "Keshav just kept going even though Mr. Well, (Keshav) took it upon himself, he's kind of competitive, to go further and further," Wilson said. "His teacher, Mr.

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A Review: History of Pi Day – BladenOnline (BladenOnline.com)

The history of pi originates back to 287-212 B.C., but it was recognized by the greek letter π in the 18th century. This number is significant to mathematicians ...

Pi Day is celebrated in many ways, with festivals and various pie foods. This number is significant to mathematicians because it’s an infinite number representing the continuous ratio of a circle’s circumference. The March 14th celebration recognizes the number known as pi. So with all of this talk about Pi Day today, make a fruit pie or a pot pie, share it with some friends and family, and explain the history of pi and why it’s so essential. • The history of Egypt involves pi because the pyramids were said to be built with the principles of pi. With today being “Pi Day” here is a review of the history of Pi Day.

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Pi Is Hiding Everywhere (WIRED)

For Pi Day, let's track down the surprising spots where this mathematical constant turns up, from the quantum world to the everyday one.

It's in the [electric constant](https://www.wired.com/story/how-you-define-electric-field-voltage-and-current/), which is used for calculating the electric field due to charges. It's in the magnetic permeability constant, which is used for calculating [magnetic fields](https://www.wired.com/2014/01/measure-magnetic-field/). As the radius of this sphere increases, the surface area over which the power must be distributed also increases. The easiest way to think about the sun’s power is to think about its rate of energy production, or how much it produces over a certain amount of time. The sun outputs almost 4 x 1026 watts (that’s 4 x 1026 joules) of energy every second. So anytime you’re dealing with circles, it seems quite logical that the number pi could show up.

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Pi is magic (Princeton University Press)

Pi is a perplexing, elegant representation of something vast and profound. The symbol Π was first used by William Jones, a Welsh mathematician, in 1706 as an ...

Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, and Fortune. Her photographs are in collections at the Morgan Library & Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. In fact, numbers and mathematics are in the fabric of our universe, and some mathematical Platonists believe that mathematics exists independently of the human mind, just as planets and stars exist. Amie and Benson are “theoretical” or “pure” mathematicians, which means they do “math for math’s sake.” They are interested in ideas, abstraction, exploring the boundaries of pure reason without explicit or immediate application in the physical world—akin to art, philosophy, poetry, and music. Practitioners of applied math, on the other hand, use theories and techniques to solve “practical” problems in the physical world. I am a visual artist—not a mathematician—but I have spent much of the last several years photographing the chalkboards of some of the greatest mathematicians in the world.

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Celebrate Pi Day with this kid-friendly activity (University of Florida)

Celebrating Pi Day? Try this activity by a UF mathematician · Contests for reciting digits of (impressive memorization skills!) · Throwing pies at people (messy!)

This site also contains a simulation tool that will drop needles by the thousand and update the resulting estimate of the probability. Do this a few times; that is, maybe drop 1,000 toothpicks in total, keeping track of the number that cross a line in each batch. Draw parallel lines on the paper at a distance equal to the length of a toothpick, like so:

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Everything you need to know about the history of Pi Day (Fox News)

Pi Day is beloved by the scientific community worldwide as a way to celebrate the mathematical constant and engage in fun pie-related activities.

The initial celebration was reportedly marked by a circular parade and the guests eating a variety of fruit pies. Google famously released a Google Doodle on its search bar commemorating the date. [ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, ALBERT EINSTEIN IS BORN IN GERMANY, EXPLODED ONTO WORLD STAGE AT AGE 26](https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-march-14-1879-albert-einstein-born-germany) first recognized Pi Day,](https://www.foxnews.com/us) the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization labeled Pi Day as a part of the International Day of Mathematics during the 40th General Conference in November 2019. [celebration of Pi Day](https://www.foxnews.com/category/lifestyle) occurred at the San Francisco Exploratorium on March 14, 1988. [College and high school facilities](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/education) may host competitions between students to see who can recite pi to the highest number of decimal places without making a mistake. Other celebrations involve educating students about the mathematical importance of the number in schools and other educational facilities. [Ancient Egyptians](https://www.foxnews.com/category/science/archaeology/history) and Babylonians to be equal to somewhere in the range of 3.12-3.16. [United States Congress](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/congress) on March 12, 2009, after the House of Representatives passed legislation to mark March 14 as the official date. [Pi Day](https://www.foxnews.com/category/lifestyle/occasions/holiday) in recognition of the mathematical constant with their favorite slice of pie and other quirky Pi-related activities. [PI DAY: HOW IT’S CELEBRATED ACROSS THE NATION](https://www.foxnews.com/us/pi-day-2020-march14-314-saturday-celebration) The number Pi, or π, symbolizes the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter and is equal to approximately 3.14159, with a fraction of 22/7.

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Slice Of Life: Celebrating Pi Day And The Mathematical Constant ... (Forbes)

The natural universe expresses itself mostly in curved shapes and motions. Every one of those expressions can be represented by a circle, an alteration of a ...

However, in the 17th century, novel methods of mathematical analysis in Europe offered improved ways of calculating π through infinite series. The Babylonians estimated π to be about 25/8 (3.125), while the Egyptians estimated it to be about 256/81 (roughly 3.16). 250 BCE) is credited with devising the first method to calculate π to any desired accuracy, given enough patience. Pi Day is often celebrated with activities such as π-themed baking contests, math quizzes, and π recitation competitions. And this is why Pi Day is celebrated worldwide. This tradition started on March 14th, 1988, when physicist Larry Shaw organized an event at the San Francisco Exploratorium to honor the famous number and mathematics in general.

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What is Pi Day And When Is It Celebrated? World Pi Day History » (Expat Guide Turkey)

Pi Day, which is celebrated every year on March 14 in memory of the famous mathematical constant pi, has not been forgotten this year either.

The day, which is almost a holiday for mathematicians, is celebrated with various activities in various places. It is of great importance in sciences such as mathematics, geometry and physics, especially in calculating the circumference and area of a circle. World Pi Day History

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Spanish academic and architect proposes a pi (π) relative called psi ... (EL PAÍS in English)

The number enables the calculation of the area of a geometric form he calls an 'antisphere' with applications in the engineering and construction of ...

The tunnel application was endorsed by Antonio Manuel Peña García, a physicist and engineering professor at the University of Granada (Spain). “It can be applied to a downspout, to a network of pipes, to an earthquake-resistant tower, to 150-foot [50-meter] ships without using columns, even to biotechnological devices,” he said, showing models made with But Peña found that the periscope systems applied in China “required greater tunnel height and are very expensive.” The result is a unique, sinuous shape made with straight lines. He became convinced that it has unique optical, acoustic and thermal properties that lower costs by 50% because it reduces the surface area of conventional shapes such as cylinders and rectangles. It is the squaring of the circle.” How to find the area of that surface formed by straight lines that run from the end of the rectangle to the points of the semicircle? The base is a square, and the elevation is a circle. This irrational number has crept into every facet of life, from engineering and architecture to statistics and [ quantum mechanics](https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-02-22/we-have-made-science-fiction-come-true-scientists-prove-particles-in-a-quantum-system-can-be-rejuvenated.html). [ScienceDirect](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088677982200428X?via%3Dihub) and issued [another unreviewed](https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202108.0557/v2) report. One approach was to use the length of an ellipse designed by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose life inspired the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity. [number pi (π) ](https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/04/01/inenglish/1427892395_607702.html)is celebrated internationally on March 14 because it starts with 3.14, or the 14th day of the third month.

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Pi Day 2023 (thebedfordcitizen.org)

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 worldwide. Pi is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to that circle's diameter.

9 – One of the Comcast Channels that runs Bedford TV Comcast Ch 8. Today, by the way, is also Or celebrate things that are irrational, or more popularly to celebrate puns, since a popular way to celebrate Pi Day is to eat pie. Even today, Pi is used in trying to explain the universe. Because Pi is a calculated constant, it’s the same for every circle of every size. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 worldwide.

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