Pi Day
March 14 is officially designated as Pi day in the United States. I am not sure if it is anywhere else in the world, but I bet it is.
It one of my favorite holidays. It fits into my sence of order and love of numbers. OK OK it's a geek thing. I always knew the first several digits of pi were 3.14159 but since most folks didn't, I could rattle off a whole slew of random numbers and no one would know if I was right or wrong. I doubt it really impressed anyone though. But I learned them just in case.
3.1415962535.
It was actually easier to confound people by reciting my phone number and pausing after the fourth number instead of the 3rd.
Instead of saying 555-5212, I'd say 5555-212. Or doing my SSN the same way. Instead of 123-45-6789, I'd do 1234-56789. I'm such a pitb.
But I digress. There are a lot of ways to celebrate Pi day, besides eating pie of course. Someone even made up a song using the number pi for the right hand and random chords for the left. So here are some cool links for Pi Day.
- The (pi)ano song
- Math with Mr Herte even more links here
- History of Pie Day
- How to celebrate Pi Day
There are lots more ( there were some really lame jokes that I didn't even like), but you can do a search if you want. True geeks with spare cash can even find cool Pi day shirts. Maybe I'll stick some on my christmas list.
