# Happy "PI Day" everyone!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498 "2020-03-14T20:53:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/1 "2020-03-14T20:53:37Z")
Yes here it is March 14th once again, and everyone around the world is frantically celebrating “π Day”. Happy “Pi Day” to everyone at the Straight Dope Message Board. > **[Pi Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day)** > > Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14 in the month/day format) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π. It was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw, an employee of the San Francisco, California science museum, the Exploratorium. Celebrations often involve eating pie or holding pi recitation competitions. In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day. UNESCO's 40t In 19... ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/2 "2020-03-14T21:31:06Z")
I celebrated early this morning, at 1:59. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/3 "2020-03-14T21:36:25Z")
I made 2 π! One pumpkin and one apple. No one gets a slice unless they designate its size in radians! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/4 "2020-03-14T23:22:25Z")
My wife, Pepper Mill, made a blueberry pie today, decorated with a Greek “pi” symbol and “3.14” It was delicious! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/5 "2020-03-14T23:24:58Z")
The Mrs. is making a pecan pie for us tonight. Yay. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/6 "2020-03-14T23:42:56Z")
Apple pie is what’s in this house. Happy Pi Day! ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/7 "2020-03-14T23:50:01Z")
No pie in this house ☹ Do chocolate covered raisins count? If I eat 3.14159 of them? I did do a pi day lesson with my fourth and fifth graders yesterday. At lunch they held a bake sale. But I didn’t see any pi there either ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/8 "2020-03-15T00:32:52Z")
Found myself in the airport in Hong Kong sometime around March 14 years ago. There was one work of art that was a big clear plastic “π” and it was filled with apples. It took me a few minutes to get it, and then I laughed myself silly. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/9 "2020-03-15T01:01:21Z")
Well it seems I got more replies to my posting this year than in previous years. 🙂 Also, let’s not forget that 3/14 is also Albert Einstein’s birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/10 "2020-03-15T01:06:41Z")
Just wondering who had steak for dinner? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/11 "2020-03-15T03:23:31Z")
Too bad it’s way too early to make rhubarb pie, one of my favorites. My cousin sends me a huge amount every year, to make into pies at the cafe where I work, but since I hope to have another job before the season begins this year I probably won’t be making them now.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/12 "2020-03-15T06:49:41Z")
How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the tough lectures involving quantum mechanics; but we did estimate some digits by making very bad, not accurate, but so goddamn efficient tools! By dropping valuable wood, a dedicated student, I, Volokh, Alexander, can determine beautiful and curious stuff, O! Smart, gorgeous me! Descartes himself knew wonderful ways that could ascertain it too! Revered, glorious - a wicked dude! Behold an unending number: pi! Thinkers’ ceaseless agonizing produces little, if anything! For this constant, it stops not – just as e, I suppose. Vainly, ancient geometers computed it – a task undoable. Legendre, Adrien Marie: “I say pi rational is not!” Adrien proved this theorem. Therefore, all doubters have made errors. (Everybody that’s Greek.) Today, counting is as bad a problem as years ago, maybe centuries even. Moreover, I do consider that variable x, y, z, wouldn’t much avail. Pi, imaginary, like i? No, buffoon! 3. 14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 34825 34211 70679 82148 08651 32823 06647 09384 46095 50582 23172 53594 08128 48111 74502 84102 7(Punctuation counts! It looks like every period, question mark, and exclamation point represents a 0 digit. Well, mostly anyway.)Cite: [English Pi Mnemonics](http://pages.intnet.mu/cueboy/education/maths/pi/england.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/13 "2020-03-15T07:14:10Z")
Missed pie day. Will have to make up for it next week. Maybe use up some of the pumpkin guts in the freezer. Just need condensed milk. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/14 "2020-03-15T10:17:00Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Well it seems I got more replies to my posting this year than in previous years. 🙂 > Also, let’s not forget that 3/14 is also Albert Einstein’s birthday. And the anniversary of the death of Stephen Hawking. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/15 "2020-03-15T11:25:07Z")
Made pi(e) cookies (pie crust cut up, sprinkled in cinnamon sugar and rolled up) and a potato and haddock “pie”. A friend made a tourtière . Brian ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/16 "2020-03-15T13:26:59Z")
bah, tau is the way to go. Still waiting for June 28 ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/17 "2020-03-16T16:32:38Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Just wondering who had steak for dinner? 😉 The mister did. It’s his favorite day!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kovitlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kovitlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kovitlac)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/18 "2020-03-16T16:55:59Z")
A group of people in the office, myself included, have been watching The Mandalorian most Fridays for the last few months (we’ve had to go several weeks without due to holidays, people being out, etc). Last Friday was the last episode of the season, and since Pi Day was Saturday, a number of us brought in circle-shaped foods. It was a fun time 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/19 "2020-03-16T17:07:17Z")
I don’t think it’s actually international, since most of the world would write Saturday’s date as 14/3. But in any event, I had some for breakfast, and then again at 1:59:26 PM. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498/20 "2020-03-17T02:29:35Z")
I made our family favorite: sausage, spinach and egg pie. Savory pies are the bomb. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-pi-day-everyone/849498.md?page=2)