Pi-day '10

Mathematicians around the world are "celebrating" today, March 14, also written as 3.14, because it's "Pi day". (And if you don't know why, it's because "Pi" written out to two decimal places is 3.14.)

And if you don't know what "Pi" (π) is, it is a letter in the Greek alphabet. It is also the representation used for the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter; the lower-case Greek letter (π) is ALWAYS used for this representation, even if starting a sentence [the upper-case Greek letter (Π) is used to represent a series of multiplications]. It is a constant. It is an irrational number, meaning that it cannot be exactly expressed by a ratio of integers (unlike "1/2" or "1/3"), and in decimal representation it "goes on forever" (like "1/3") and does not have a repeating pattern (unlike "1/3").

There is an entire book dedicated to the "value" of pi; pages upon pages of nothing but numbers. I do not recall exactly how many pages or numbers, but I believe it went out to at least 10,000 decimal places. There has even been legislation proposed (by idiots and morons who do NOT understand what that would do) to change pi to be "exactly 3". Why? I don't know, but while they're at it, why not legislate the value of "e" to be "exactly 2" or the value of √2 to be "exactly 1"? It makes about as much sense. Of course, if they did and everyone blindly accepted it and adopted it, the world would come crashing down - at least, buildings, bridges, and other structures literally would. So it will never happen, despite what some idiotic-moron (or is that "moronic-idiot"?) tries to legislate.

So go out and celebrate today. How? Might I suggest a piece of pie?

π ≈ 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993114819665930...