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It's Pi Day! (Original Post) Marthe48 5 hrs ago OP
;-{)..... Goonch 5 hrs ago #1
Interesting article about PI day Callalily 4 hrs ago #3
Pi Day Fun Facts Callalily 4 hrs ago #2
22/7 ... 21.99/7 ... bucolic_frolic 4 hrs ago #4
Meh EYESORE 9001 4 hrs ago #5
Just read that a trillion digits are known Marthe48 3 hrs ago #6
My favorite - a Raspberry Pi Wonder Why 1 hr ago #7
Happy Pi Day LetMyPeopleVote 1 hr ago #8
Happy Birthday Albert Einstein. Born on Pi-day. LetMyPeopleVote 1 hr ago #9
Or Pi Day was established on Einstein's birthday? Marthe48 24 min ago #10

Callalily

(15,367 posts)
2. Pi Day Fun Facts
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 08:20 AM
4 hrs ago

Key 2026 Pi Day Facts:

Significance: Pi represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, a constant roughly equal to 3.14159.

History: Founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, it is also Albert Einstein’s birthday.

Celebration: Celebrated with mathematical activities and, frequently, eating "pie".

bucolic_frolic

(54,868 posts)
4. 22/7 ... 21.99/7 ...
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 08:45 AM
4 hrs ago

i though they taught us to use 22/7. Not it's not quite the real value. smh

Marthe48

(23,057 posts)
6. Just read that a trillion digits are known
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 09:40 AM
3 hrs ago

People track what positions 314159 appear in the sequence. Who knew?

Marthe48

(23,057 posts)
10. Or Pi Day was established on Einstein's birthday?
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 12:49 PM
24 min ago

One of our family friends resembled a famous singer. People often told him he looked like Kenny Rogers. He was older than Kenny Rogers, so he'd say, "No, Kenny Rogers looks like me!"

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