{"id":5036,"date":"2016-03-14T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2016-03-14T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:54:02","slug":"march-14-is-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2016\/03\/14\/march-14-is-pi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"March 14 is Pi Day!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2016\/03\/pi_squared-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"pi_squared\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2016\/03\/pi_squared-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2016\/03\/pi_squared-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2016\/03\/pi_squared-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2016\/03\/pi_squared-115x115.jpg 115w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2016\/03\/pi_squared.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">March 14 is Pi Day!!!<\/p>\n<p>It is during\u00a0Spring Break. But never fear, we WILL be celebrating Pi Day &#8211; just on March 21 not March 14!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/03\/pie-bites-small.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-99\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-99\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/03\/pie-bites-small.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Pie Bites\" width=\"256\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/03\/pie-bites-small-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2013\/03\/pie-bites-small.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Come to our Pi Day Celebration from\u00a03:14 until 5:00 p.m. on March\u00a021st in the Seamans Center Student Commons and enjoy free pie bites, lemonade, and coffee!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then get a team together &#8211; or pull in spectators &#8211; and compete in trivia contests! Show off your knowledge of Pi and pie!!<\/p>\n<p>Pi is one of the most famous and mysterious of numbers. Defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it&#8217;s diameter, Pi seems simple. However, it turns out to be an irrational number. Because it is irrational it cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction and the decimal representation therefore never ends, nor does it ever settle into a permanent repeating pattern.\u00a0Scientists have calculated billions of digits of Pi, starting with\u00a03.14159265358979323&#8230;. with\u00a0no end in sight. It could be calculated to infinity and there would be absolutely no way to know which number would come next.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see what 100,00 digits of Pi look like? Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geom.uiuc.edu\/~huberty\/math5337\/groupe\/digits.html\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark your calendar and come to Pi Day &#8211; March 21st, 3:14 to 5:00 p.m. in the Seamans Center Student Commons. Don&#8217;t forget we have free apple pie bites (while supplies last), lemonade, and trivia contests!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Take a break on the first day back from spring break &#8211; you don&#8217;t want to miss out on all the fun!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Be there or be square!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<!-- Code Embed v2.2 --><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vp9zLbIE8zo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!-- End of Code Embed code -->\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Happy Pi Day Domino Spiral, 10,059 dominoes were used in this Pi Day Spiral.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adrian, Y. E. O..\u00a0<em>The pleasures of pi,e and other interesting numbers. 2006. <\/em>Singapore : World Scientific. <a href=\"http:\/\/smartsearch.uiowa.edu\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/dlDisplay.do?vid=uiowa&amp;search_scope=default_scope&amp;docId=uiowa_aleph003680478&amp;fn=permalink\" >Engineering Library QA95 .A2 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Happy Pi Day (3.14) Domino Spiral<\/em>. March 13, 2011. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vp9zLbIE8zo\" >youtube.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Stunning images transform Pi into circular rainbow-hued works of art.<\/em> March 3, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2442633\/Pi-transformed-stunning-circular-rainbow-hued-works-art.html#top\" >dailymail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Interesting Facts about Pi.<\/em> 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzle.com\/articles\/interesting-facts-about-pi.html\" >Buzzle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Pi Jokes.<\/em> 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jokes4us.com\/miscellaneousjokes\/foodjokes\/piejokes.html\" >Jokes4us.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Pi Song<\/em>.\u00a0Originally sung by Hard &#8216;N Phirm. Sept. 17, 2006. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VqpWETqoD5Q\" >youtube.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2016\/03\/pi_squared-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"pi_squared\">3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062&hellip; March 14 is Pi Day!!! It is during&nbsp;Spring Break. But never fear, we WILL be celebrating Pi Day &ndash; just on March 21 not March 14! 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