Pi Day: Circle Your Calendar -- Once-in-a-Century Day Coming This Weekend

[Boing]

Circle around, math fans. There's a once-in-a-century Pi Day coming this weekend.

The day that celebrates the mathematical constant pi is Saturday. And because it's 2015, this particular sequence of numbers in the calendar that matches pi -- 3/14/15 -- won't come around for another century.

While the mathematical constant, which represents the ratio of circumference of a circle divided by its diameter, is often abbreviated as 3.14 for convenience, pi actually has an infinite number of digits beyond the decimal point, starting with 3.141592653.

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So, expect a good deal of celebration at 9:26 a.m. at 53 seconds -- with the pastry pie, for obvious phonetic and geometrical reasons.

In fact, there will be a point between 9:26 a.m. 53 seconds and 54 seconds that the clock matches the number pi down to an infinite number of digits.

And as befitting its reputation as an elite institution of math, science and engineering, the Institute of Technology has announced that it will send out its acceptance letters for this year's incoming class on Pi Day, precisely at 9:26 a.m.

That should round out the day -- at least for those accepted.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/p...-century-day-coming-weekend/story?id=29623233

 

[User-E]

This is also Albert Einstein's birthday - March 14, 1879.

 

[Insider]

Pi Day was dreamed up 27 years ago to celebrate 3.14 on 3/14, but this year the geek dial is being turned up to 15 — as in 3/14/15.

And will be the only year until 2115 that you can turn the dial up to the max, at 3/14/15, 9:26:53, an exact match for pi's first 10 digits.

As a matter of fact, there are two opportunities to celebrate the mysteries of 3.141592653 on Saturday.

"One of my former students sent me an email stating that he is going to celebrate the once-in-a-century Pi Day by eating pie both at 9:26:53 a.m. and 9:26:53 p.m.," Aziz Inan, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Portland, told NBC News in an email.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/wei...ilestone-comes-only-once-century-3-14-n323131

 

[User-E]

This is a sad day for me.

I have no ingredients to bake a pie, I have no steak to cook and I have no penis to blow.

:Crying/:

 

[papasmerf]

I have a Penis and no steak

I have the makings of a pizza

 

[User-E]

I have a Penis and no steak

I have the makings of a pizza

Hmmmmmm If only we didn't live thousands of miles apart. :Battingeyelashes:

 

[papasmerf]

Hmmmmmm If only we didn't live thousands of miles apart. :Battingeyelashes:

This too is true