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TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, March 14, 2011
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Did you know that today is national Pi day? If you think
about it, the short version of Pi is 3.14, and today is
3/14! I'm not sure I ever realized there was a whole day
dedicated to Pi, but now that I know, I figured you should,
too. Let's celebrate with some fun facts about this special
number...
Enjoy!
Melissa
Email Melissa: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "If equations are trains threading the landscape of
numbers, then no train stops at pi."
HINT: (1954-), New Yorker writer and bestselling author
best-known for his alarming books about infectious disease
epidemics and bioterrorism.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Pi (pi = periphery) is the relationship between the
perimeter of a circle (the circumference) and the distance
across that circle (the diameter).
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Pi is equivalent to 3.1415926535897932384626433832795, etc.
or 3.14 for short.
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For years the ancient Greeks struggled with rational
numbers (those that could be written as a simple fraction)
to arrive at the concept of pi. It was only later
discovered that pi is an irrational number.
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The symbol for pi was first used in 1706 by William Jones,
and later made popular by Swiss mathematician Leonhard
Euler in 1737.
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The first Pi Day was held at the San Francisco Exploratorium
in 1988, when visitors were invited to participate in Pi-
related antics and activities.
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On March 14, 2015, at both the AM and PM hours, the date
will read 3/14/15 at 9:26:53.589. It's the most accurate
pi day that many people on earth alive today will ever see!
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QUOTE: "If equations are trains threading the landscape of
numbers, then no train stops at pi."
ANSWER: Richard Preston.
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