This is the day, March 14, that from coast to coast that college math students to kindergarteners get out their pizza and favorite fruit pie, hold contests and celebrate that little number called pi. We all use it when calculating circumferences of circles and finding the area of circles, and more.
Pi is a special number in that is a very special number because its decimal number seems to go on forever without repeating. Groups of mathematicians have tried to solve pi since the middle of the last century. In 2012 it was reported that a group had solved pi, but there is some speculation about that. Pi was first originally used by William Jones in 1706 and made popular in 1737 by Leonhard Euler. Pi is an irrational number that is also sometimes approximated by the fraction 22/7 and the decimal number 3.14 (which is why today is Pi Day).
Anyway, happy Pi Day!
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