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Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter - which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and eat pie.
Pi has been calculated to over 50 trillion digits beyond its decimal point. As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern. While only a handful of digits are needed for typical calculations, pi’s infinite nature makes it a fun challenge to memorise, and to computationally calculate more and more digits.
Pi Day is on March 14, and any day that combines fun, education, and pie is a day worth celebrating! Pi, also known by the Greek letter "π," is a constant value used in math that represents the ratio of a circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is just about 3.14...15...9265359... (and so on). Not only that, but the fourteenth of March is also Albert Einstein's birthday, so all together it's nothing short of a mathematician's delight.
- To learn about pi, we need to go back a few thousand years and learn about this elusive number. The value of pi was first calculated by Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC), one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world.
- However, it was first baptized with the Greek letter as its name when William Oughtred called it as such in his works dating back to 1647, later embraced by the scientific community when Leonhard Euler used the symbol in 1737.
But how did Pi Day end up in a country-wide phenomenon? For that, we need to travel to the Exploratorium in 1988 San Francisco, where it was thought up by physicist Larry Shaw.
- Shaw linked March 14 with the first digits of pi (3.14) in order to organize a special day to bond the Exploratorium staff together, where he offered fruit pies and tea to everyone starting at 1:59 pm, the following three digits of the value. A few years later, after Larry's daughter, Sara, remarked that the special date was also the birthday of Albert Einstein, they started celebrating the life of the world-famous scientist.
The mathematical concept of pi has been around for thousands of years, but it started to be known by the Greek letter only in the 1700s. Philologist William Jones began using the symbol in 1706, but it was popularized by mathematician Leonhard Euler.
Unless you're a mathematician or scientist, you probably don't encounter pi very often. But pi is essential for calculations in math, engineering, construction, physics and space exploration.
Like our love for pie, pi is infinite. Its exact value can never be calculated, and it doesn't seem to have a pattern.
Here's pi to the 10,000th digit. You should recite it.
Rajveer Meena holds the record for reciting the most number of decimal places of pi. In 2015, Meena recited 70,000 decimal places blindfolded. It took him almost 10 hours.
- People compete in memorizing it : Rajveer Meena has the record for memorizing the most decimal places of pi at 70,000.
- It's used as stress tests for computers : Computing pi is a kind of “digital cardiogram” for computers.
- A Givenchy men's cologne is named pi : So you can smell like pi too if you are the intellectual and visionary kind.
- It has other names : Pi can also be named “Archimedes' constant,” or “Ludolph's number.
- It has been used by heroes : Spock foils the evil computer by having it calculate pi's value in Star Trek's episode “Wolf in the Fold”.
Hope you got some information with this thread 🙌.Let's Celebrate Pi day together by wishing legendary scientist Einstein a Happy birthday. See you in next thread . 👋.
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