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March 14, 2022
Did Neolithic humans build this structure t0 celebrate Pi
Day? Not
Pi Day is
relatively recent phenomenon
~~invented by
physicist in 1988 and designated by
Congress
national holiday in 2009_
But it's already
almost certainly the most popular holiday celebrating
mathematical
constant While Pi
young tradition ,
the number TT (pi) itself has been a fascination since
antiquity; when it was first calculated as the ratio of a
circles circumference t0 its diameter:
You probably know that March 14 was chosen for Pi Day
since the date expressed numerically (in monthldate
format) matches the numbers first digits
3.14. Aside from
eating pie to celebrate ,
some people go tO great lengths t0
memorize digits that go way beyond 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
Day "
Day
likely:
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