The Pi Day

As a Mathematics teacher I'm usually concerned about curiosities related with our life which are connected with this subject in one or another way. That most of the things which surround us have a Maths basis is a fact, but some of them have a special interest because they are weird.

The day before yesterday it was one of those special and weird days from a mathematical point of view. If we check the date at a newspaper caption maybe we won't notice it, but if we transform it into short format date, then we will realize that it was 3/14/15 which corresponds with the first 5 digits of Pi number. In fact we had an even more accurate "Pi moment of the day". It happened at 9:26:53 AM when the time figures added 5 additional decimal digits of this number.

The most special thing is that is the one and only Pi Day that will happen during current 21st century, so that it make it a little more special than other,  at least for all the people who knows the importance of this irrational number into our lives and our past.

For example, egyptologists have been fascinated by the fact that the Great Pyramid at Giza has dimensions related with Pi. The vertical height of the pyramid has the same relationship to the perimeter of its base. Just exactly the same as the radius of a circle has to its circumference.

There are also other really curious facts. One which always catch the attention of everyone is that the first 144 digits of this number add up to 666….the number of the Beast !!

Besides, Pi is related with many computing and communications situations, but they are quite difficult to explain with words. However, everybody involved with technical studies will confirm it.

So that, we can say that this has been a very special day.
 

You can learn more about Pi on

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-h-bailey/pi-day-314-14_b_4851011.html