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Happy Pi day...

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Nat @ CRAFT writes - "Today, March 14th is officially Pi Day! Pi, is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi = 3.1415926535... Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts (and crafters too!) around the world on March 14th". Pictured above are hand embroidered Pi patches by pillowhead on Etsy as seen in the CRAFT Flickr pool - Link.

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Posted by: Holly on March 14, 2008 at 12:29 PM

If you convert

Pi = 3.14159265 to hrs, mins, secs, changing 92 to 1:32 and 65 to 1:05, pi minute today will take place at:

5 seconds after 4:33pm
Cheers!

(Thanks to my pal Fred for this one!)

Posted by: JH on March 14, 2008 at 2:01 PM

Using an European date format, the date in question is 13.3.2008. Hard to see any relation to pi there. Is there any point to Pi day?

Posted by: pt on March 14, 2008 at 2:02 PM

@jh - i ask myself the same question about every celebrated day.

Posted by: Collin Cunningham on March 14, 2008 at 4:15 PM

T.G.I.P. ! !

Posted by: Jordan on March 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM

I memorized 132 digits of Pi last year. I still remember 125!

Posted by: adam on March 17, 2008 at 7:18 AM

@Jordan

I once memorized all of the digits of Pi. I still remember all of the digits, though I've forgotten the order and frequency...

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