Hey crazy math geeks out there - a good piece of news for ya ! Today is commemorated as the ‘Pi’ or π day . Confused ? today’s date - 3/14. got it now ? Yes, the mathematical constant pi = 22/7 roughly equals 3.14. Know what ? The US House of Representatives has recognised 14 March as Pi Day officially.

This may seem silly and weird with the US bureaucrats having a hell lotta problems to address in reality, but let’s not ignore the special place π shares in the world of mathematics. The ratio of of any circle’s circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space; this is the same value as the ratio of a circle’s area to the square of its radius - π has taught a lotta things to us. I seriously doubt any other mathematical constant playing such a basic role for the building blocks of all known science to mankind ! Though pi is irrational, we should indeed be rational towards its importance :) !

Being an irrational number, it cannot be expressed purely by a fraction m/n where m and n both are integers. Also the decimal representation never ends or repeats. Such a peculiar number has made us all this technological innovations possible. And so, dude - we gotta do the honors for the number. or let us take this opporunity to pay respect for all those greatest mathematicians who transformed our lives to see the technology growing but hardly got the due ! Hail mathematics aka mathemagic ! Happy Pi day !

Remembering Pi :

There are some real geniuses out there who can recite  pi to some tens of thousands of  decimal places. For meeky-geeks like us, remembering even to the tenth digit is a big achievement. So how do those ‘highly intellects’ remember to such a big numeral to such high order of accuracy ? The method follwed is mnemonics, where in one remembers strange and catchy phrases and tries to relate with the numbers. Here’s an example : Say you wanna recite Pi to its 14 decimal places. Here it goes,

“How I want a drink? Alcoholic, of course. After the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.”

One can easily remember the above sentence. The hint and relation to pi here is the number of letters in each word. Each word relates to one decimal andt the number of letters equals the number => 3.14159265358979 So, give a try impressing others with mnemonics ! happy Pi Day dear geeks !

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