## What? Pi day?

(Repost from last year.)

Some people have called today (14th of March) “Pi day”. Their logic for this is that $\pi \approx 3.14$.

That, however, is sheer lunacy as the 14th of March is noted 14.3., and $\pi \neq 14.3$, no matter how much you squint.

Those of us that write our days in the correct way — this being, naturally, the way I, a gawdless furriner, use — will celebrate the Day of the Most Ineffable Constant on 22.7., since $\pi \approx 22/7 = 3,142857\ldots$, where the decimal part repeats.

Besides, the error in this latter estimate is roughly 1.3 thousandths, while the poor American value errs by a whopping 1.6 thousandths.

Also, it appears that the American House of Representatives passed a resolution suggesting that 14.3. was Pi day. No matter; they were globally wrong even if locally right. And local properties don’t extend into global ones that easily. (This is actually a very poor joke if you’ve done some function theory.)

Also, 10 Republicans voted against the resolution; by what I’ve heard of American politics, I am not surprised.

(Also, I just love WordPress to pieces for having an easy way to input $\LaTeX$ into blog posts, and dislike myself for starting a third consecutive paragraph with “also”.)

### One Response to “What? Pi day?”

1. vampiresdontlikeonions Says:

22/7 > Pi The first few decimal points give the wrong impression.