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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"]
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Happy Pi Day to everyone… :grin:
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.
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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 :grin:
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratorium "Exploratorium in San Francisco"
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day "pi day on WikiPedia"
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