Today is π Day 2008

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Today is ?-Day 2008. A day in honor of ?, one of the most impor­tant math­e­mat­i­cal con­stants. It approx­i­mately equal to 3.14. ? rep­re­sents the ratio of any circle’s cir­cum­fer­ence to its diam­e­ter in Euclid­ean geom­e­try, which is the same as the ratio of a circle’s area to the square of its radius. For those who live in the US and use the MM/DD date rep­re­sen­ta­tion for­mat, the rea­son should be clear enough: March 14th ? 3.14. On my knowl­edge the best ?-Day was in 1592 (3÷14÷1592 at 6:53:58 = 3.14159265358).

Coin­ci­den­tally, ?-Day is also the birth­day of Albert Ein­stein, who no doubt knew more than a lit­tle about ? :-)

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  • Yana says:

    A really funny ana­lytic obser­va­tion con­cern­ing 3÷14÷1592 at 6:53:58! ;-)


    14th March, 2008 at 19:48

  • Olexandr Isayev says:

    @ Yana:

    A really funny ana­lytic obser­va­tion con­cern­ing 3÷14÷1592 at 6:53:58! ;-)

    Yanochka, thanks for com­ing! Indeed, this is really inter­est­ing coincidence.


    14th March, 2008 at 20:42

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