Would you like some Pi with that?

[Aaron Adler <cadlerun@>]

Today is Pi Day (thus all the email messages about pies). Who knew it 
had an official web site? http://www.piday.org/

I guess all the scientists and mathematicians felt left out. We have 
lots of zany holidays, so why not have one to celebrate Pi.

There are holidays like Evacuation Day which only gets celebrated in 
Suffolk county and just happens to coincide with St. Patrick's Day 
(yeah, no coincidence at all). We've talked about that before though: 
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gsb2000-03-17.html

If Hallmark can market Sweetest Day, Christmas in July, and Boss's Day, 
surely we can create a holiday to support makers of round objects.

I remember my middle school math teacher had one of those Pi posters at 
the front of the room. I memorized some of the digits when I was bored 
in math class. 3.1415926535... which is more than enough digits to do 
anything practical. I mean 22/7 was popular for a while, and that's only 
accurate to 2 decimal places.

Tangentially (ha, ha), it's also Albert Einstein's birthday today; he 
would have been 129 this year. Turns out Einstein's birthday is a closer 
approximation to Pi than 22/7: 3-14-1879 => 3.141879. That's only off by 
a few ten-thousandths.

I can't remember if we celebrated Pi Day that much when I was in middle 
and high school. But we did celebrate "Mole Day" in chemistry. It has 
it's own website too -- http://www.moleday.org/ -- and it's own 
"Foundation": National Mole Day Foundation Inc.

Pi Day doesn't have a foundation. Pi is going to feel left out!

I know; I'll cheer up Pi by ordering some pie shaped Pizzas for GSB...

Come celebrate Pi at tonight's....

            +-                                                  -+
              girl scout benefit -+-  5:30 pm  -+- 32-G9 lounge
            +-                                                  -+

               For those coming from elsewhere: Building 32 is
                <http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32>
           Once you are in 32, just take the G-elevator to the 9th
       floor and we will be in the lounge that you will be looking at
                     <http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb>


P.S. Harold already sent a message. So you get a bonus today; **TWO** 
GSB messages.

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