+++ title = "Pi Day" author = "Danilo M." type = "life" date = "2010-03-14T11:55:45+00:00" excerpt = "Let's celebrate Pi Day together." categories = [ "Blogging"] tags = ["lerry shawn", "celebrazione", "feste", "pi greco"] +++ Happy Pi Day to everyone… :D Since 1988, Pi Day has been celebrated on March 14th. The date was chosen based on the Anglo-Saxon notation of this day, 3.14, which resembles the approximation of Pi to three decimal places. The first person to celebrate this occasion was the physicist Larry Shawn, who organized a circular procession around one of the buildings of the [Exploratorium of San Francisco][1] and the sale of fruit pies decorated with the decimal digits of this magical number. Later, the physicist was awarded the title of **Prince of Pi**. To this day, mathematics departments in numerous universities organize parties to celebrate this number. For more information and some other interesting links, please refer to the [page][2] that Wikipedia dedicates to this event. Happy 3.14 to everyone :D [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratorium "Exploratorium in San Francisco" [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day "pi day on WikiPedia"