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Happy PI Day (2017)




One of the most fascinating math ‘mysteries’, as exciting as anything can get, in its intrigue and link to all things in our universe.

March 14th (3.14) is day, and all around the world pi-philes are celebrating one of the most compelling and mysterious constants of Nature. Pi appears in equations describing the orbits of planets, the colors of auroras, the structure of DNA. The value of is woven into the fabric of life, the universe and … everything.

Humans have struggled to calculate for thousands of years. Divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter; the ratio is . Sounds simple, but the devil is in the digits. While the value of is finite (a smidgen more than 3), the decimal number is infinitely long:

3.1415926535897932384626433832795
02884197169399375105820974944592307
81640628620899862803482534211706…more

Supercomputers have succeeded in calculating more than 2700 billion digits and they’re still crunching. The weirdest way to compute : throw toothpicks at a table or frozen hot dogs on the floor. Party time.

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