Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Pi day

  • In Sherman Oaks on Wednesday, pie made pis day. Millikan Middle School went all out to honor one of maths most famous numbers: 3.14. Otherwise known as pi. The date was ideal: March 14.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • While youre frying up some eggs and bacon, were cooking up something else: a way to celebrate todays food holiday.
  • (CNN)
  • Welcome to Pi Day, which sadly does not include anything baked by my granny. Rather, Pi Day is about math, which journalists are generally not as good at as dessert consumption, and celebrates a never-ending number usually abbreviated to 3.14159.
  • (Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog))
  • Fifth and sixth grade students raced across a stage on Pi Day to answer math problems.The Bakersfield City School District hosted the 26th annual Math Bowl at Chipman Junior High with 24 teams competing from local elementary and middle schools.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • March 14 is National Pi Day, celebrating a mathematical constant that the nation's pie industry has long co-opted for itself. Too bad, then, that sales are coming off a year that seems less pie-centric than many had predicted.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • In one of those deliciously appropriate coincidences of history that is all too often and incorrectly termed ironic, superstar scientist Albert Einstein was born on March 14.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Pi, the mathematical constant approximately equal to 3.14, is celebrated nationwide March 14 because of the dates numerical significance.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • It's March 14, otherwise known as 3.14 or Pi Day. ANY excuse to eat pie, even one as silly and fabricated as this one, works for me. The storefront itself is compact and gorgeous. In fact, it's a NW Design Award winner by Weber Thompson.
  • (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
  • "I was surprised when I saw that," said Mark Winkelman, president of Better Made Snack Food Company in Detroit, in reference to the first time he realized that National Potato Chip Day fell on Pi Day.
  • (Detroit Free Press)
  • BRIELLE — March 14 – or 3.14 – is International Pi Day, and to celebrate the magical mathematical figure, the students at Brielle Elementary School Wednesday celebrated with a Pi-Palooza Festival.
  • (Asbury Park Press)

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