Math geeks rejoice! The day you’ve been waiting so long for has finally arrived…March 14, 2015. Why? Saturday, March 14, 2015 is a very special Pi Day, a celebration of the irrational number that describes the ratio of a circle’s diameter to its circumference. Pi is approximately 3.141592653 (to infinity) and at 9:26:53 a.m., the date and time will read 3.14.15 9:26:53, or 10 digits of pi. Continue reading for a video and more information.
David Blatner, author of “The Joy of Pi”, says : “But there’s something special about pi that people connect with. It strikes a dissonant chord within us. How can something so simple as a circle – the most simple shape in the universe – how can it be defined by something we cannot know?”