I used to wonder why they always said “pie are squared” when every pie I’d ever seen was round. Of course, they were actually saying π · r², which is exactly the kind of fancy math stuff better left to the nerds running baseball these days. So when you hear today, March 14, referred to as Pi Day, it’s indeed due to the fact that it represents the first three digits of that most famous mathematical constant, pi. Representative of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, pi’s decimal representation never ends and never falls into a permanent repeating pattern.
It’s Pi Day, So Here Are 3.14 Irrational Things I’m Looking Forward To This Season
