π Day!

Happy π (3/14) Day! (And Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein.)

It'll be more exciting in 10 years when it will be 3/14/15 9:26:53. Or if you want to skip the time and prefer rounding, in 11 years it will be 3/14/16. For whatever it's worth, I currently have π memorized to 3.14159265358979, which I believe coincides with the number of digits of π stored on a TI-85. In case you missed it, I was, and am, a HUGE math nerd.

Many years ago, my parents threw a pie party (although I don't think it was on π Day). All the guests were requested to bring a pie and no other type of food. There were fruit pies, mincemeat pies, pot pies, and I think even a pizza pie. But being the creative child that I was, I made some chocolate chip cookie dough and formed it into a gigantic π-shaped cookie. More than one of my parents friends didn't get the joke, if I recall.

π day is also Albert Einstein's birthday. He would be 126 today, which is relatively old. (Pun entirely intended. We're so sorry, Uncle Albert. (Oh man, now I'm punning/quoting Paul McCartney songs. I better stop this before it gets out of hand.))

Edit: Yes, I fudged the time of this entry.

Posted by rhode at March 14, 2005 01:59 AM