Pi Day!

Have you ever wondered why we dedicate an entire day to a number? 

Well, I am here to inform you why pi is such a special number by listing the following facts:

1. Pi is the most recognized mathematical constant in the world. 

2. Comedian John Evans once quipped: "What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-latern by its diameter? Pumpkin Pi."

3. Scientists in Carl Sagan's novel Contact are able to find hidden messages from the creators of the human race, allowing humans to access universal understanding.

4. We can never truly measure the circumference or the area of a circle because we can never know the value of pi, as it is an irrational number whose digits continue in a random sequence.

5. In 1995, Hiroyoki Gotu memorized 42,195 places of pi and is considered the current pi champion. Scholars speculate that Japanese is better suited than other languages for memorizing numbers.

6. In 2002, a Japanese scientist found 1.24 trillion digits of pi using a computer called Hitachi SR.

7. "Pi Day" is celebrated on March 14, which was chosen because it resembles 3.14. The official celebration begins at 1:59 p.m. to make an appropriate 3.14159 when combined with the date. Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day (3/14/1879) in Ulm Wurttemberg, Germany.

8. The Bible alludes to pi in 1 Kings 7:23 where it describes the altar inside Solomon's temple: "And he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim...and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about." These measurements procure the following equation: 333/106 = 3.141509. 

9. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and artist Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) both briefly worked on "squaring the circle" or approximating pi.

10. The first six digits of pi appear at least six times among the first 10 million decimal places of pi.