Happy Pi Day! How will you be celebrating the world's most famous mathematical constant?
March 14 is Pi Day, a chance for people around the world to celebrate everyone’s favorite mathematical constant"π"
Pi is an incredibly important number in many fields because it is used to represent the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter The value of Pi is always the same no matter the size of the circle—approximately 3.14. Pi is an irrational real number, meaning it cannot be fully expressed, and continues on infinitely. For millennia, humans have tried to calculate Pi to ever greater decimal accuracy, an endeavor which has been pushed to the extremes by the advent of modern technology.
A Google developer—Emma Haruka Iwao—recently broke the world record for calculating the constant, working it out to an astonishing 31.4 trillion digits using a cloud computing technique.If you’re searching for a less calorific way to celebrate Pi Day, why not try out some of these math jokes on your friends and loved ones?What was Sir Isaac Newton’s favorite dessert? Apple pi.What do you get when you take green cheese and divide its circumference by its diameter? Moon pi.
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