Today is March, 14, 2014, known to fans of Raspberry Pi and Pi Day—3.14. Get it? We love Raspberry Pi here at MAKE and the number of Pi fans is growing, but of course there are still lots of people who have no idea what
Pi is an irrational number that expresses the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. You knew that, right? But you might not know that Pi Day was conceived back in 1988 by physicist Larry Shawn of San Francisco's Exploratorium science museum.
Pi, or π, is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is an irrational number, meaning it cannot be written as a simple fraction. Instead, it can be expressed as an infinite, nonrepeating decimal (3.14159) or
On the unofficial holiday “Pi Day,” an ode to the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter—3.14—which so happens to be recognized on March 14, MIT's Admissions Office will finally let students know whether or not they were accepted to the
A reporter at National Geographic wanted to find someone to interview about pi—that number you learned in grade school that is the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter. So the reporter thought, I wonder if there's such a thing as a