Happy Pi Day!

Take any circle! The distance all the way around is called the circumference. The diameter is the distance from one end of the circle to the other (how wide the circle is). Amazing, if you divide the circumference by the diameter, you'll always get approximately 3.14.

Today is March 14th, or 3/14. Thus, today is Pi Day! Happy pi day!

Today, Alicia made me an Apple pie to celebrate. We didn't measure the circumference or the diameter, but I'm pretty confident we'd have gotten pi (apple pi!).

Also, to celebrate, I've told my students that there will be a pop quiz on Monday. Every ten digits of pi they successfully memorize, I'm giving them 1 point extra credit. Of course, there will be a cap at 5 points. I'd hate to give a student an A just because he or she memorized pi to a thousand digits.

To finish the post off, here's a very small part of pi:

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
4428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609...