tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63599104277857375792024-11-01T03:35:55.773-07:00Welcome to blog.dailySunrisenews.comADMINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877741705370935800noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359910427785737579.post-90077076581244220762011-03-14T10:49:00.000-07:002011-03-14T20:54:51.787-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pi day Mar 14(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">dailysunrisenews.blogspot.com</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) - As the math and science enthusiasts among us already know, March 14 (i.e. 3/14) is official Pi Day — a day to <b>celebrate the number Pi</b>, identified by the <b>Greek letter π</b>, which is used to calculate the circumference of a circle.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the number one day of the year to celebrate your favorite mathematical constant!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8g-11xjWBCYNDloTZVgInOHP_ogIrrO_7WgP8BrUmiJxbRWFqzZzsn9lYYcgU3mDjy2qIhd5Jj0IPxlDzL_hccNb9criEo2cHMBSP0ijs9cHMP4DnRwu5nNT4NfyJagEBcQLr0FCoAHM0/s1600/pi+day+2011%252Cblog+daily+sunrise+news%252Cdaily+sunrise+news+blog%252Cdaily+sunrise+news%252Cdailysunrisenews%252Cpi+day+activities%252Chappy+pi+day%252Cpi+day+song%252Cpi+approximation+day%252Cpi+facts%252Cdinosaurspi+day%252Cblog+news.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8g-11xjWBCYNDloTZVgInOHP_ogIrrO_7WgP8BrUmiJxbRWFqzZzsn9lYYcgU3mDjy2qIhd5Jj0IPxlDzL_hccNb9criEo2cHMBSP0ijs9cHMP4DnRwu5nNT4NfyJagEBcQLr0FCoAHM0/s320/pi+day+2011%252Cblog+daily+sunrise+news%252Cdaily+sunrise+news+blog%252Cdaily+sunrise+news%252Cdailysunrisenews%252Cpi+day+activities%252Chappy+pi+day%252Cpi+day+song%252Cpi+approximation+day%252Cpi+facts%252Cdinosaurspi+day%252Cblog+news.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Happy Pi Day</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">math lovers!</span></b></td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you take the day <b>really seriously</b> you can celebrate at 26 and a half seconds after 1:59pm (<b>3.14159265</b> is pi truncated to 8 decimal places) but we’ll just be enjoying the entire day.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And just so you don’t embarrass yourself today, please don’t forget this one key fact: Pi is the ratio between the diameter of a circle and its <b>circumference.</b> That’s pretty basic knowledge for some, but if you’ve been out of school for a few years it’s easy enough to forget and think it’s the radius instead.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This, being the fourteenth day of the third month, is National Pi Day — a day to recognize the <b>mathematical constant </b>of pi. In this video, the daughter of YouTube user kurtgodden recited the first 500 digits of pi in 90 seconds. She’s memorized the <b>first 2,300.</b></span></div></div>ADMINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08877741705370935800noreply@blogger.com0