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March 14,.2022
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Pi Day is an annual
celebration of the
Did Neolithic humans build this structure to celebrate Pi Day? Not likely: Pi Day is
relatively
March 14
recent phenomenon-invented by
physicist in 1988 and designated by Congress
national
IC
mathematical constant T
holiday in 2009. But it's already almost certainly the most popular holiday celebrating
(pi).
mathematica
constant While Pi
young tradition; the number T (pi) itself has been
fascination since antiquity; when it was first calculated as the ratio of
circle $ circumference
to its diameter
On March 12, 2009,the US House of Representatives
You probably know that March 14 was chosen for Pi Day since the date expressed
passed
non-binding resolution recognizing March
numerically (in month/date format) matches the number's first digits, 3.14. Aside from eating
pie to celebrate, some people go to great lengths to memorize digits that go way beyond
14,2009 as National Pi Day:
3.141592_, which earns them bragging rights in some; um, circles The world record is
staggering 70,000 digits after the decimal point-the remarkable feat was achieved by 21-
year-old student Rajveer Meena in 2015.
Founded in 1988 by
physicist Larry Shaw; March 14 was selected
as Pi Day because the numerical date (3.14) represents the first three
Take
moment from your Pi Day revelry to appreciate the unintentional Tr symbol formed by
this Neolithic burial chamber in Cornwall; England: As the morning sun warms Lanyon Quoit's
digits of pi. It also happens to be Albert Einstein's birthday:
ancient stones, it's impossible not to wonder who built it and how; since
predates metal
tools and is older than Egypt's pyramids. Theories abound, of course
but could TT have been
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