March 14 day is Pi Day! Pi (Greek letter ” “) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant – the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter – which is approximately 3.14159. Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits past its decimal.
The first official Pi Day celebration took place on March 14, 1988, at the San Francisco Exploratorium. Noted physicist, Larry Shaw was the organiser of this event. This day got a boost when the US House of Representatives recognised March 14 as the Pi Day. The first ten digits of Pi are 3.1415926535. How many digits can a man memorise? Suresh Kumar Sharma of India set the world record and memorised 70,030 digits in 2015.
On this day several programmes take place across the world with certain activities. Students try to solve typical mathematical problems. In educational institutions and science centres, pi memorisation challenge happens, numerical fun and quiz programmes are organised. Some of the dishes are named on pi such as pizza pie, fruit pie and so on. This celebration aims to enhance the interest of people in mathematics and physics.
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