How the World Celebrated Pi Day 2020
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How the World Celebrates Pi Day
Pi Day is now a well celebrated international holiday. The Day was first introduced to the world in 1988 at the Exploratorium. Now, everyone around the world, especially maths geeks and scientists has started to take the day seriously.
The date is set on March 14 because 3/14 is the mathematical constant of Pi. Meaning, after dividing a circle’s circumference by the diameter your answer should be around at 3.14.
However, like most mathematicians have been doing for the past 4000 years, if you decide to take the milestone and go on to make further calculations. You will discover that the Pi’s numbers go till infinity.
How the World Celebrates Pi day
Now that Pi day is being acknowledged around the world, there are several ways you can celebrate the maths event. Also, the day Pi also happens to be the famous scientist and mathematician Albert Einstein’s birthday, hence it’s double the celebrations.
Here are 5 ways the world celebrates this popular day.
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Use Toothpicks to Calculate Pi
This could actually be of help to online casino players. Hence pay attention to what is known as the Buffon day. Back in the 18th Century, French gambler and naturalist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, would use toothpicks to calculate Pi.
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Have Plenty Pie
Well, since pie and Pi rhyme, this seems like a pretty reasonable way to celebrate. Find an excuse to indulge and eat as much pie as you can. After all, back in 1988, the Exploratorium’s first celebration of the day was a pie feast.
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Creative Ways of Bringing out the Pi symbol
This is not a hard thing considering the Pi symbol is quite easy to make. Hence, for Pi Day, you can make pie symbols from paper cuts or any straight material.
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Searching and discovering Pi
This is another fun way for mathematicians to celebrate their Pi day. Did you know that if you search Pi on google you will get 200 million numbers? But, that is not all the number. The list for Pi numbers is quite endless.
Therefore, for the holiday, you can search and discover even more Pi variations. After all, learning is an endless process. You can never know enough.
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Go for the Pi Day Procession
You can go and join other fans of Pi circle and the shrine on the event. This is usually done at Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance”. There you will find people dancing and singing happy birthday to Albert Einstein. And, if you are hungry, they will be eating pie!
Conclusion
Pi day is over, but if you did not know then now you do. Better still, you can use these tips and have fun next year.
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