Today I happened to look at the clock and noticed it was 3:14. And my first thought was that this was a Pi moment.<\/p>\n
By that I mean something very specific: At some point during that minute, the time was exactly 3:14:15.92653589793… In other words, at some infinitely tiny moment, the time on the clock was exactly Pi.<\/p>\n
What’s the big deal? you might well ask. After all, isn’t that true of lots of other numbers? There is a moment when the time on the clock is exactly two, and another when it’s exactly the square root of ten.<\/p>\n
But Pi is special. There is even a day of the year — March 14 — devoted to Pi, and a moment of that day — a little before four in the afternoon — when all the infinite digits of Pi line up on both the calendar and the clock.<\/p>\n
I have lots of friends who celebrate Pi Day, and I think that’s wonderful. But hey, why should we have to wait?<\/p>\n
Why enjoy Pi only one day a year when we can have Pi every day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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