Pi Day and Pie Day!!
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What a year so far! First we had 2/22/22 on a Tuesday, and now we have 3/14 which some people celebrate as Pi Day! Even better, it falls on a Monday this year, and what could be better than starting a week with pie?
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Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi starts with 3.14 and continues on for a long, never-ending number. People like to see how much of the number they can memorize: 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 ...
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Larry Shaw, a physicist at the San Francisco Exploratorium, is credited with organizing the first large-scale celebration of Pi Day in 1988. The staff and anyone else who wanted to join marched around one of the circular spaces on campus and then ate fruit pies.
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Oh! And by the way,
Pi Day can also be celebrated by eating a pizza pie!
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Pizza Skills click here to watch fun pizza dough tossing 8:00
Infinite Life of Pi click here to watch a TED video about Pi
