Larry Shaw created Pi Day in 1989.[4] The holiday was celebrated at the San FranciscoExploratorium, where Shaw worked as a physicist,[5] with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, then consuming fruit pies.[6] The Exploratorium continues to hold Pi Day celebrations.
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There are many ways of celebrating Pi Day. Some of them include eating pie (pi and pie being homophones) and discussing the relevance of π.[1]
It’s also Albert Einstein’s birthday! Down in Princeton, they marked the event with a weekend-long celebration of math and science.
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I too was once an ardent pi supporter. However, I have seen the light… let us eliminate spurious factors of two everywhere and embrace a more reasonable transcendental number: tau (http://tauday.com/)
Will the really big Pi Day celebration be in 2015 or 2016? I’m personally in favor of truncating.
I too was once an ardent pi supporter. However, I have seen the light… let us eliminate spurious factors of two everywhere and embrace a more reasonable transcendental number: tau (http://tauday.com/)