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Every March 14 is international <a href="http://www.piday.org/"
  title="Official Pi Day website home">Pi Day</a> when math
  enthusiasts around the world celebrate the famous
  constant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi" title="Wikipedia
  entry for Pi">Pi</a>, equal to the ratio of the circumference of a
  circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 because its
  first 3 digits are 3.14 <i>(representing March 14th using month.day
  notation)</i>. March 14 is also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein">Albert
  Einstein's</a> birthday <i>(he would be 138 years old in 2017)</i>. Pi is an
  irrational number, meaning that the sequence of its decimal digits
  continues forever without repeating itself.
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3.1415926535897932384626...
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<h2>Other Pi fun:</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/">Pi Facts & Pi Day
  Activities at the Exploratorim</a> 
  <li><a href="http://www.joyofpi.com/pilinks.html">Joy of Pi</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day">Pi Day on Wikipedia</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://pi.ytmnd.com/">Pi.ytmd</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://two-n.com/pi/" title="An average person can read out approximately 120 digits/min. Keeping this pace it would take more than 158,000 years to recite the 10 trillion digits of π discovered this year and roughly 3 weeks to read out the 4 million digits visualized here">Interactive visualization of 4
  million digits of Pi</a>
  <li><a href="http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/art/" title="Circos-based numerical art by Martin Krzywinski">The Art Of π, φ And e </a>
  <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110315063631/http://www.onlineschooling.net/visualizing-pi"
  title="Infographic ca. 2010 via the wayback machine -- original site has bitten dust :(">Visualizing Pi Infographic</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/piday">Pi Day stuff you can buy</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_yMRGF5DCI" title="Pi as a topic for stand up comedy? Yes, in Silicon Valley.">Don McMillan: What is Pi?</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.pidaychallenge.com/">Pi Day Challenge</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/03/12/1741202/pi-day-is-coming-but-tau-day-is-better">Pi
  Day Is Coming -- But Tau Day Is Better</a>
  <li><a href="http://sciencefriday.com/blogs/03/14/2013/pi-day-mashup.html/">Pi Day Mashup</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://time.com/4697605/pi-day-2017-birthday/">Find Your Birthday Hidden in Pi</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Pi Day in the news:</h2>
<ul>
  <li>2017: <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2124418-celebrate-pi-day-with-9-trillion-more-digits-than-ever-before/">Celebrate pi day with 9 trillion more digits than ever before</a></li>
  <li>2016: <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/14/470372197/on-pi-day-lets-gawk-at-the-beauty-and-controversy-of-the-math-constant">Let's Gawk At The Beauty And Controversy Of The Math Constant</a></li>
  <li>2016: <a href="http://www.teachpi.org/uncategorized/3-14-16-is-upon-us-um-rounded-pi-day/">Rounded Pi Day</a>, by Pi Day afficionado Luke Anderson</li>
  <li>2014: <a href="http://sciencefriday.com/segment/03/14/2014/celebrating-irrational-transcendental-pi.html">Celebrating Irrational, Transcendental Pi</a></li>
  <li>2012: <a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/index.php?project=80&program=1324">Pi
  Day Exploratorium webcast</a></li>
  <li>2011: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/pi-day-videos-to-celebrate-march-14_n_835467.html">5
    Videos To Help You Celebrate March 14</a></li>
  <li>2010: <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/14/pi-day/">Pi Day: Google
  Doodle Celebrates Math Nerds Everywhere</a></li>
  <li>2010: <a href="http://www.geekosystem.com/pi-five-trillion-digits-alexander-yee-shigeru-kondo/">Japanese
  Engineer and US Student Claim to Calculate Pi to 5 Trillion
  Digits</a></li>
  <li>2009: <a href="http://www.freakingnews.com/Pi-Day-Pictures--2354.asp">Pi
  Day pictures 2009</a></li>
  <li>2008: <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/03/thank-god-its-p.html">Thank
  God it's Pi Day!</a><small></small></li>
  <li>2007: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258584,00.html">Fans
  of Pi Have Their Day</a> <small></small></li>
</ul>

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<h3>About this site:</h3>
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The domain name "3.14inthesky.com" is a play on the phrase
"<a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/282700.html">pie in the
    sky</a>" &mdash; a fitting metaphor for this special
transcendental number and natural embodiment of the infinite. No
matter how good we get at computing the decimal digits of Pi, there
will forever be one... more... digit...
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The background image for this page is a graphic representation of
1,310,720 digits of Pi, 
where each digit is indicated by a pixel of a different color. It was obtained
from <a href="http://www.hithlonde.com/pi/">here</a>.  
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This website is a production
of <a href="http://TeamHuman.org">TeamHuman.org</a>, in recognition of
contribution of math to the success of humanity.
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<h1>Happy Pi Day! :-&#928;
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