Happy Pi Day!

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Today, March 14th, is Pi Day π! For the unaware, Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference (distance around) to its diameter (distance across). It doesn’t matter the size of the circle - the ratio is always the same, about 3.14… Pi is an infinite number, but for your math homework, using 3.14 is standard.

Pi was “discovered” by Ancient Babylonians and later improved upon by the Egyptians. In this photo, we’re flying the approach to Al Najaf, Iraq, which is in the center of the Ancient Babylonian empire.

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July 22 (22/7) is a much better Pi day.

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Only works if you write the date the wrong way.

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Because MM/DD makes total sense. Yeah.

(Unless you write YYYY/MM/DD, for which I could argue is the best date format. But I doubt you write it that way.)

Plus, 22/7 is literally how you write 22 divided by 7, a ratio actually closer to Pi than 3.14. And 3/14 is what, 0.21428…? I can’t see a Pi in there…

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The way I was taught here is MM/DD/YYY, which really is strange when you think about it. But there’s a lot of things we do questionably here.

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Sadly I get this all too well but either way I love me some Pi and Pie

Happy Pi Day to you too, and great photo!

Fun fact of the day: The sum to infinity of the series of reciprocals of the squares of all natural numbers is equal to π²/6. This fact may also be used to estimate the probability that two random integers, 1 and n (n > 1) are coprime - where the limit of said probability as n approaches infinity is 6/π².

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@Mort, you will not be getting a like from me on this one. You didn’t give us any :pie:s, but you’ll give people :cookie:s. I could care less about the irrational number and :pie:>>> :cookie: . Sorry, but I gotta uphold the standards man. Missed opportunity :smiling_face_with_tear:.

Sounds way better when put into words. March 14th > the 14th of March. Don’t need extra words

A little bonus, having the day come first would take away things like MAR10 (Mario day), Airbus month (3/10, 3/20, 3/30), May the 4th (May the force), etc

Happy Pi Day :pie:,
Speaking of Math things happy birthday Albert Einstein :light_bulb:

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