March 14th is almost here and its time to celebrate your favorite mathematical holiday, Pi Day!
You are probably asking things like:
- What is Pi Day?
- What is the earliest recorded reference to Pi?
- Who was the first person to use the Pi symbol?
- Where, when, and why was Pi Day first celebrated?
- What famous people are born on Pi Day?
Happy Pi Day!!!!!
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th every year!
Pi is the ratio of any circle’s circumference to its diameter.
The Pi symbol was adopted by Swiss mathematician, Leonard Euler, in 1737.
Pi is: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582….
133 years, is the approximate amount of time it would take a person to recite the 6.4 billion known digits of Pi without stopping.
You could calculate the spherical volume of our entire universe with the first 39 digits of Pi!
The earliest reference to Pi occured in Ancient Egypt around the year 1650 BC.
Happy Birthday!
Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein and NBA superstar Stephen Curry both are born on March 14th!
Pi Day was first celebrated in San Francisco in 1988.
The number 1 is the most commonly occuring number in the first 100,000 decimal places of pi. It occurs 10,137 times.
Did you know?
Most pizzerias and bakeries offer special Pi Day deals and discounts on March 14?
It would take 12 billion digits of pi, typed in a normal-size font, to reach Kansas from New York City.
The record for discovering the most number of pi belongs to Fabrice Bellard. He calculated 2.7 trillion decimal places on just a desktop computer.
When people want to measure ripples emanating from a central point, they use pi.
Did you know?
Apple pie is the most preferred pie flavor amongst Americans, with Pumpkin pie coming in second, and Pecan in third.