# It's March 14th - Happy Pi Day Everyone !!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736 "2012-03-14T04:22:10Z")\ **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, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/1 "2012-03-14T04:22:10Z")
It seems every year, I start off yet another Happy Pi Day thread - so here I am starting this one. šŸ˜ƒ For those of you not familiar with Pi Day, it is March 14th which is 03/14 (if you donā€™t live in the United Kingdom). Anyway, 03/14 with just a slight manipulation becomes 3.14 - the first three digits of pi. And if Pi Day isnā€™t cerebral enough, March 14th happens to be Albert Einsteinā€™s birthday. Okay, all you folks celebrating Pi Day, come join this thread. ---
**Author:** ![RedWood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@RedWood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedWood)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/2 "2012-03-14T05:27:22Z")
for my 8 am Algebra class, I am bringing an apple and a cherry Pie. Apple has the Pi symbol: Cherry is adorned with 22/7. Happy Pi Day! ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/3 "2012-03-14T05:31:06Z")
Iā€™ll be wearing [this shirt](http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=17682). ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/4 "2012-03-14T05:57:20Z")
Fifth grade daughter is competing with fellow students: whoever recites the most digits of pi wins a pie. The recipient has the choice to eat it or to toss it at her teacher. The poor child has a dilemma on her hands: permission to smash a pie in the teacherā€™s face is a rare opportunity, but itā€™s Oreo pie! Decisions, decisions! (Last I heard before bedtime, she was up to 118 decimal places.) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/5 "2012-03-14T06:21:27Z")
When come back, bringā€¦ No, even Iā€™m not that lame. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/6 "2012-03-14T06:21:56Z")
And in 37 minutes, it will be 3.14159! \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/7 "2012-03-14T08:06:50Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > For those of you not familiar with Pi Day, it is March 14th which is 03/14 (if you donā€™t live in the United Kingdom). The UK is far from the only country where days are customarily written before months, but thank you for celebrating my auntā€™s birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/8 "2012-03-14T09:17:45Z")
Those of us who use the day/month sequence need to wait until the 31st of April to have a date with ā€œ314ā€ in that order. Hang on ā€¦ :smack: šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/9 "2012-03-14T11:12:58Z")
3.14ā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/10 "2012-03-14T11:31:16Z")
And I thought I got there firstā€¦ Damn. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/11 "2012-03-14T11:33:31Z")
[Semper Pi.](http://www.scienceteecher.com/Semper-Pi-T-shirt.html) ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/12 "2012-03-14T12:10:29Z")
Brought some pie to school to share with my math department. Hooray for Pi! (And Iā€™m such a math nerd sometimes ā€“ do you realize in 3 years it will be 3.14 of 15?) ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/13 "2012-03-14T12:15:25Z")
I tried wishing my friends a happy Pi Day but they accused me of being Americentric and claimed all the cool kids celebrate it on April 31st. I accused them of trying to suck all the joy out of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/14 "2012-03-14T12:39:29Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > It seems every year, I start off yet another Happy Pi Day thread - so here I am starting this one. šŸ˜ƒ > For those of you not familiar with Pi Day, it is March 14th which is 03/14 (if you donā€™t live in the United Kingdom). > Anyway, 03/14 with just a slight manipulation becomes 3.14 - the first three digits of pi. > And if Pi Day isnā€™t cerebral enough, March 14th happens to be Albert Einsteinā€™s birthday. > Okay, all you folks celebrating Pi Day, come join this thread. I did that most cliched of things ā€” I clicked the wrong button and merged the wrong thread into this one. :smack: Your patience while we clean up Aisle 4. Ellen ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/15 "2012-03-14T13:25:39Z")
Iā€™m trying to post all the pi facts I know on Facebook. My friend count hasnā€™t dropped. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/16 "2012-03-14T13:34:11Z")
Thatā€™s not all it is ā€“ which Iā€™m definitely in favor of. After all, itā€™s not every day that I get steak. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/17 "2012-03-14T14:25:58Z")
[O.K., Iā€™ll post the link to the Pi Song. Youā€™re welcome.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfr7xG6smhU) ---
**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 14, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/18 "2012-03-14T14:38:23Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > Those of us who use the day/month sequence need to wait until the 31st of April to have a date with ā€œ314ā€ in that order. > > Hang on ā€¦ > > :smack: > > šŸ˜‰ it could happen, February got an extra day this year. :rolleyes: How about starting a petition to move Leap Day to Apr 31st; youā€™ve got four years to succeed. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/19 "2012-03-14T16:17:10Z")
Pi is a lie, hence I celebrate [tau](http://tauday.com/) day. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736/20 "2012-03-14T18:46:46Z")
> [@RachelChristine](#): > > Brought some pie to school to share with my math department. Hooray for Pi! (And Iā€™m such a math nerd sometimes ā€“ do you realize in 3 years it will be 3.14 of 15?) It would be more accurately rounded in four years. 3.14159 would round up to 3.1416, or 3/14/16. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-march-14th-happy-pi-day-everyone/615736.md?page=2)