Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th because the first three digits of pi are 3.14

Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 at the San Francisco Exploratorium, and it has since become a global phenomenon

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Pi is an irrational number, which means it goes on forever without repeating. To date, pi has been calculated to over 31 trillion digits

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There is no end to the number of digits of pi, and there is no pattern to the digits

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Mathematicians and computer scientists continue to work on calculating more and more digits of pi

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In 2019, a Google employee named Emma Haruka Iwao set a new world record by calculating pi to 31.4 trillion digits

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In 2015, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sent out its admission decisions on Pi Day

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Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th because the first three digits of pi are 3.14

Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 at the San Francisco Exploratorium, and it has since become a global phenomenon

Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 at the San Francisco Exploratorium, and it has since become a global phenomenon

Pi is an irrational number, which means it goes on forever without repeating. To date, pi has been calculated to over 31 trillion digits

There is no end to the number of digits of pi, and there is no pattern to the digits

Mathematicians and computer scientists continue to work on calculating more and more digits of pi

In 2019, a Google employee named Emma Haruka Iwao set a new world record by calculating pi to 31.4 trillion digits

In 2015, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sent out its admission decisions on Pi Day

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