TORONTO – March 14 is the best day to embrace your inner math nerd.
Unless, of course, you weren’t so good at mathematics in school – in that case it’s the best day to embrace your love for pastry.
March 14 (3.14 – get it?) marks Pi Day around the world, where math nerds come together to celebrate the importance of numbers and, well, eat pie.
A reminder, for those of us who didn’t excel with numbers: Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. The number, which most of us know as 3.14, can also be used to calculate the area of a circle and the volume of a sphere.
But Pi can go on infinitely: 3.1415926535897932…
The nerdy celebration has become an internationally recognized opportunity for Twitter users to make math puns or tweet 140 characters worth of Pi symbols and infinite numbers.
Some die-hard numbers fans even take turns throwing pies at each other in celebration.
This year the MIT Admissions office released a two-minute video of students getting “pied” in the face in honour of the occasion.
Here is some more Pi Day reaction (Global News apologizes if this post makes you hungry for Pie):
- Invasive strep: ‘Don’t wait’ to seek care, N.S. woman warns on long road to recovery
- Ontario First Nation declares state of emergency amid skyrocketing benzene levels
- Do Canadians have an appetite for electric vehicles? Experts are divided
- Nearly 200 fossil fuel, chemical lobbyists to join plastic treaty talks in Ottawa
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