Google Celebrates The International Pi Day Along With The Whole World

Google Celebrates The International Pi Day Along With The Whole World
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The International Pi Day is celebrated today, March 14th, the same day when, unfortunately, Stephan Hawking died. The International Pi Day is an initiative coming from the United States in order to promote math among children. Also, Google celebrates International Pi Day with a special Google Doodle.

The Whole World Celebrates The International Pi Day

The Pi Day is celebrated in the whole world by children and adults, through unique contests but also by eating “pies” <Pi-es>.

Pi is a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of any circle in a Euclidean space, and the symbol of Pi (π) was first proposed in 1706 by the mathematician William Jones. The symbol derives from the abbreviation of the word “perimeter”.

The value of Pi equals about 3.14159 in the usual decimal notation, the constant being one of the most important in mathematics and physics. Pi is an important constant in many formulas in mathematics, engineering, physics, and other sciences.

Many mathematicians work to discover more decimals of the Pi constant

The earliest proven use of a good approximation of the length of a circumference relative to the radius is 3+1/7 and it has been used at the construction of pyramids in Ancient Egypt.

Archimedes has been the first to discover the first two decimals of the Pi number. Currently, Pi has more than 13 trillion known decimals.

Pi represents a cultural symbol

Pi has become a true cultural symbol, a metaphor for the mysteries of mathematics, which has inspired its own literary genre – Pilish. In Pilish, according to Wikipedia, “the lengths of consecutive words match the digits of the number π (Pi)”.

The Pi constant was also celebrated in music and movies.

Pi is also a source of inspiration for competitions, where participants have to recite as many decimals of the number as possible. The Japanese 69-year-old Akira Haraguchi has become a legend among the masters of memorization after reciting 111,700 decimals of Pi in only 16 hours and 30 minutes.

In conclusion, today Google celebrates the International Pi Day with a special Google Doodle, along with the whole world.


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