Today is 3.14.16, Pi Day – a day that’s celebrated annually around the world by Mathematicians. The date today resembles the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter approximating to 3.14159.
On this day, eating pies, throwing pies and even talking about the significance of the number π counts as celebration. Not just that, today happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday and that adds to the fun of the day.
Pi is also used in everyday life and I dug up the internet for some interesting facts to share:
- Look up the curvature of a rainbow
- In the pupil of the eye
- Have you seen ripples when a raindrop falls into water?
- Population dynamics – statisticians used Pi there.
- The structure/function of DNA has a relation with Pi.
- The pendulums for clocks are designed using Pi.
So, Pi is just not to solve those mathematics questions. Like any other scientific fact, it’s all around us.
Did you know there is a square root day too? Well, it’s on 4.4.16!
Writing for #MicroblogMondays today.
happiness and food 
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Never knew this fact about today’s date! Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Rajiv
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Thanks for stopping by Rajiv. Well, today’s is Rounded Pi Day as they are calling it. 🙂
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Now that’s a bunch of trivia I was not aware of. For some reason the moment someone says Pi, I remember that movie with Irrfan Khan & the tiger. Can’t recall the name! Happy Pi Day I guess 🙂
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Life of Pi Nabanita 🙂
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Nabanita..it was Piscine Molitar Patel 🙂
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Haha I feel more learned now that I’ve read your post 🙂
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Ha ha! 😀 Thanks for stopping by Damyanti!
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Ah! You took me back a bit to my love hate relationships with mathematics. Such interesting facts! Square root day is super cute!
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H aha! I agree! 🙂 Thanks Corinne!
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It sure sounds like a Mathematical monday. I realised about the Pi Day thanks to my daughter’s school. Those are some interesting facts. Sharing them with my daughter now. 😀
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Awesome! Thanks for letting me know. Sounds fun. Tell her about the square root day too from my side 😄
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I had no idea about Square Root day – thank you so much for mentioning it. Oh, and jinx! I did a post about Pi Day too! 🙂
Happy Rounded Pi/Einstein’s birthday to you!
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Thank you Traci.Heading over to your blog 🙂
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I knew today was Pi Day, but never knew about Square Root Day. Luckily advance warning has given me the ability to celebrate it. Thank you!
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Ha ha! Yeah – advance warning. Thank you!
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Square root day is a new one. Interesting facts here. In recent times Pi brings to mind Life of Pi, the book and the movie 😀
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Oh yeah! The book and the movie 🙂
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I knew it was Round Pi Day. I think because of Tracy York up there ::waving:: I LOVE that there’s a square root day.
And people think mathematics is boring. Ha!
(Going to buy apple pie later.)
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Yay! Hope you enjoyed the pie 🙂
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My husband loves pi day…and his best friend got married on pi day…so lots to celebrate!! Thank you for sharing those little tidbits!!
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My pleasure! 🙂
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I didn’t know all those things about pi. And cool about square root day. Though depending on how one’s part of the world does the date, it might also be called square day.
Craving for cherry pie…
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Oh that’s a smart one – square day or square root day 😛 Thanks for stopping by Lori!
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Like some others, I knew not of square root day. Happy to learn some stuff about Pi too…
Thank you. 🙂
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Always good to learn something new. Isn’t it? 🙂
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Pi day and square root day appear interesting. I have not been a fan of pi in maths (you know the tangential incline everything in maths made with my round head) and have never liked eating pies too. But throwing the pie will make an interesting sport.
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ha ha! that was funny Anamika 😛
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Thank you for commemorating Pi Day. It has been a long time since I last used pi in maths.
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Same here Jessica 🙂
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Facebook was littered with posts about Pi Day, and the trolls about it. They purposely kept confusing Pi Day with Pie Day, and were posting pics of lovely pies.
This post celebrated the real Pi Day, and not it’s homophonic twin. 😀
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Lol! thank you Mithila! Glad you found one genuine post 😉
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Your brought back the nightmare that maths was to me! This Pi has been my undoing so many times. I’m quite relieved I’m through with it.
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Ha ha 🙂 I did not intend to do that 😛
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This is most interesting! And a square root day hmmmm … Stopped by via the AtoZ challenge list. Looking forward to read your posts. Good luck !
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Thanks for stopping by Archana! Yes – 4.4.16 and as was pinted out in comments, it would be square day too 🙂
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Curious to know how pendulums for clocks are designed using Pi.
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Remember there used to be a formula that tied to the length of the pendulum and the radius? May be that?
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Pi day only brings back nightmares that mathematics turned into for me. Just glad that I have nothing to do with it any longer. It can stay in the rainbows and the pendulums.
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