Pi Day picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 27 image entries
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This Friday is the international Pi Day when math enthusiasts around the wold celebrate the famous constant Pi, equal to the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The reason Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 is because its first 3 digits are 3.14 (Pi = 3.1415926535...) March 14 also happens to be Albert Eithstein's birthday. Pi is an irrational number, meaning that the sequence of its decimal digits continues to infinity without repeating itself.
The favorite way of celebrating Pi Day among geeks are eating a pie while reciting the first hundred digits of Pi.
To celebrate Pi Day show how life would be different if Pi ruled the world. Some examples are - photoshop objects and animals shaped as Pi, show Pi in movies and paintings, etc.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2
Started: 3/13/2008 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 3/15/2008 6:00:00 AM
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| | Pi Day is celebrated by some mathematicians on March 14 at 1:59 (in the American date system — 3/14; first digits of π = 3.14159). Usually, Pi Day is celebrated at 1:59 PM (in 12-hr format), but according to 24 hr format, it is 13:59 and hence, Pi Day is preferred to be celebrated at night.
On this day, lauding speeches in the honour of number Pi are addressed appluading it’s roles in life of mankind and draw antiutoPian figures of world without Pi and eat Pies, drink drinks and play the games beginning with “P”.
Albert Einstein was born on the 14th March.
Pi Approximation Day is also celebrated on the 22nd of July (22 / 7).
Number Pi — mathematical constant, expressing the relation of length of circle to length of its diameter. It is designated by Greek alphabet “Pi”.
For the first time, Pi appeared in geometry as relation of length of circle to length of its diameter, however, it also appears in other bracnhes of mathematics. Number Pi is irrational and transcendental.
For the first time, Greek letter Pi was used by British mathematician William Jones (1706) but is widely accepted after the works of Leonard Euler. This designation occurs from initial letter of Greek words Piεριφέρεια —circle, periphery and Piερίμετρος — perimeter.
Archimedes, probably, offered the first method for calculating the Pi in a mathematical manner. For this, he inscribed a circle and circumscribed regular polygons near the circle. Accepting the diameter of circle as 1, Archimedes considered the perimeter of inscribed polygon as lower bound of length of circle and perimeter of the circumscribed polygon as upper bound.
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