Published 20:22 IST, March 13th 2020
Here is everything you need to know about Pi Day and how it is celebrated
What is Pi Day and how is Pi day celebrated across the globe? Read to find out the importance of Pi day and how people have already started the celebration
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Pi is a well-kwn mamatical constant that detes ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. When one s π in any calculator and presses enter, result that it will display is 3.141592654. However, Pi is an irrational number and is a decimal with end. Every year, March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day across globe. Pi is often represented by Greek letter π. mamatical constant is approximated with eir 3.14 or 22/7.
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What is Pi Day?
Every year, Pi Day has been celebrated in several ways, including throwing pies, eating pies, and discussing importance of π. With pi and pie being homophones in English and circular shape of pies, people tend to celebrate Pi day by making pies. In dition to that, a lot of schools also hold competitions like which student recalls highest decimal number of Pi.
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Princeton, New Jersey, hosts multiple events every year to celebrate both Pi Day and Albert Einstein's birthday. Einstein used to live in Princeton and worked at Institute for vanced Study. Apart from pie-eating competitions to recitation contests, y also organise an Einstein look-alike contest. celebration of Pi day has alrey begun around world.
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This is how Twitterati started with celebration of Pi Day, 2020
20:22 IST, March 13th 2020