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    Today (14th March) is Pi Day

    Pi Day is celebrated every year on 14th March (written 3/14 in many countries) because 3.14 are the first three digits of the Greek letter pi, the famous number equals to 3.14159…...., that describes the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

    On this fun math holiday, many people eat pie (apple, pizza, whatever!), do circle-related activities, share math jokes, watch pi memorization contests and marvel at how this simple yet infinite number shapes bridges, planets, waves and even our phones.

    Incidentally, Albert Einstein was born on the Pi Day in 1879.
  • #783748
    Happy Pi Day to all the members of this site. Pi is equal to 22/7, which works out to 3.14159. This Pi is used in many trigonometric calculations, and we studied some of them in our Intermediate.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #783750
    The author dragged me to my PUC days(1973).Thanks. The pi is a Greek alphabet letter. When my uncle was in his MSc, I casually noted his book with Greek alphabets and memorize them playfully. Then itself I know the alpha, beta, etc., And pi comes for English Alphabet P. My uncle told that Greek letters are very old and from the first letter alpha only the calling letters as Alphabet came. Now the author made me to remember my old memories on the Greek letter and my paternal uncle Dr. S. Viswanathan, who is not alive now.


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