Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Pi

  • 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)
  • Pi is more than just a number. So its only appropriate that Pi Day -- today, March 14 -- celebrates more than just 3.14: Pi is like a beguiling lover who can never be truly known. Its a mathematical constant. And yet, its irrational.
  • (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!)
  • 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)
  • While youre frying up some eggs and bacon, were cooking up something else: a way to celebrate todays food holiday.
  • (CNN)
  • 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)
  • Ford Motor Co. is offering students nationwide a healthy helping of Pi on Wednesday.  Before you ask, Pumpkin or apple?, consider the date: 3/14.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • But there seems to be another snack food encroaching on the tasty treat's territory: the potato chip. Better Made Potato Chips announced on its Facebook page that today is National Potato Chip day.
  • (Detroit Free Press)
  • Pi, the mathematical constant approximately equal to 3.14, is celebrated nationwide March 14 because of the dates numerical significance.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • In honor of Pi Day, we have to address everyone's favorite irrational number. One of the areas where pi coincides with society is in the written word. Well, not really. While pi is found in many places, it is not found in many societal situations.
  • (Wired News)

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