3.14. 3rd month 14th day. Great excuse to celebrate math!
And, while we’re at it, this is also a great time to celebrate the March 14th birthday of someone who undoubtedly used Pi in his calculations, over and over: one of my heroes, Albert Einstein!
In 2015 Pi Day, I was lucky enough to be working at a high school at that time, and witnessed students who had memorized the value of Pi recite the numbers to 100 places!
It was an extra special celebration of the day on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53 a.m. The combined numbers of the date and time represent the first 10 digits of pi — 3.141592653!
Happily Pilish Writing?
Since I love writing, and LOVE puzzles, I was delighted to learn about writing in the style of Pilish!
Pilish uses the first numbers of the value of Pi (3.141592653…etc) to determine the length of each consecutive word in a sentence. The first word has 3 letters, the next word 1 letter, the next word 4 letters, and so on, following the first fifteen digits of the number π.
Here is MY very, very short Pilish–but original–creation:
“You, O math, a logic beautiful!”
by Ramona, skyblueseagreen
Apparently, according to Michael Keith at cadaeic.net, this idea has been around since the early 1900’s. One of the earliest and most well-known examples is the following sentence, believed to have been composed by the English physicist Sir James Jeans: “How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!”
By the way, I discovered Pilish in a Reader’s Digest Article, and you can see more fun ways to celebrate Pi Day there.
What is so great about Pi π that people would celebrate it?
Well, for starters…
…And, it’s just interesting!
Well, to math people, it is interesting, because it’s different.
It’s considered an irrational number, a rarity as numbers go. (Not that it’s unreasonable, ha ha, but because it is not a rational number.)
Here are some numbers that ARE rational: 5, 100, 98.6, ¾, 0.75. Nice and simple. And we say that 98.6 and 0.75 are decimals that “terminate”, they stop.
Even the decimal 0.3333333…(repeating forever) is considered a rational number.
Look at 1/7 ! When you divide 1 by 7 you get 0.142857 142857 142857….(repeating forever) (I put spaces in to show the pattern). Cool! (And also a rational number.)
BUT! The value of Pi as a fraction is 22/7 , and as a number it is “irrational” : it never repeats or terminates!
Hope this was as fun for you as it was for me!
With appreciation, images courtesy of the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pi_pie2.jpg ,
https://images.wired.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/1447147545_albert_einstein_10.jpg ,
https://amazingarchimedes.weebly.com/real-life-application-of-pi.html ,
Math Joke poster (c)2007 by GJCaulkins http://www.mightywombat.com ,
https://neoncstar.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/pi-day-its-a-whole-lot-of-number/
Happily Writing 
It’s as easy as pi(e)!
Good one! Thanks for the laugh, Y.A.B!!!
Nice post!
Thanks so much Marcia!! (My excuse for this late reply was that I was visiting the grandkids, yahoo!)