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Celebrating Pi Day

I learned today is Pi Day...a celebration for most math, engineering and science wiz's around the planet.

As Wikipedia notes:

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 (or 3/14 in month/daydate format), since 3, 1 and 4 are the three most significant digits of π in the decimal form. In 2009, the United StatesHouse of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day.

What some call "Real Pi Day" will be celebrated on March 14th, 2015 at 9:26:53 AM. These numbers (3/14/15, 9:26:53) correspond with the first 10 digits of pi (3.141592653).

There will be Pi tweets happening throughout the day.  I came across a cartoon and crazy video already this morning, and I'm sure the day will be filled with Pi references.  I'll add in the funny ones here as we go along...

Source:http://atasteofmaths.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-pi-day.html?spref=tw

Here are some others:

Crazy Robot Video (choreographed to Turkey in the Straw:): https://twitter.com/#!/destacochat/status/179937279228395520

Another video - with pizza: http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/13/pi-day-how-3-14-helps-find-other-planets-and-more/

Pi Day Accessories: http://mashable.com/2012/03/14/pi-day-accessories/

This is a really cool video I found on Facebook - of course it's 3.14 minutes long... 10,059 dominos! The patience this must have taken...oh my!

http://youtu.be/Vp9zLbIE8zo

 


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