Monday, March 14, 2011

Recommended: Pies fly on Pi Day – msnbc.com

By Alan Boyle
Happy Pi Day! The mathematically minded holiday was created 23 years ago by physicist Larry Shaw to celebrate March 14, or 3/14 … a date that gives you the first three digits of the mysterious irrational number known as pi. It also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday. But most of all, it’s a day to get silly over science … by throwing pies, or marching in a circle or enjoying a nice slice of pizza. As every geometry student knows, pi is the ratio of a

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