Yay! It's that time of year -- it's Pi Day. Come celebrate with a piece of pie from the Village Inn. You can order dinner beforehand or skip right to dessert. Of course, you can still join us without purchasing either.
Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant digits of π. In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day. Did you know Pi wasn’t always known as pi. Before the 1700s, people referred to the number we know as pi as “the quantity which when the diameter is multiplied by it, yields the circumference”. Not surprisingly, people got tired of saying so much whenever they wanted to talk about Pi. The Welsh mathematician William Jones, a friend of Sir Isaac Newton, began using the symbol for pi in 1706.
A free slice of pie to the cacher who can recite the most digits of pi. Hopefully, Suresh Kumar Sharma from India, who holds the current official world record for memorizing the most digits of pi, having recited 70,030 digits in 17 hours and 14 minutes in October 2015, will be otherwise engaged.
