Pi Day 2015

Photo Credit: Leo Reynolds (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Photo Credit: Leo Reynolds (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

If we make the very traditionally assumption that the year is a circle (technically it is an ellipse) with a circumference of 365 days (366 on a leap year):

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HAPPY PI DAY!

*14 March as Pi Day is superficial fluff that teaches us nothing about π. Tau Day is also silly, especially since τ unnecessarily complicates the calculation of the area of a circle.

Author: Josh Witten

http://www.thefinchandpea.com

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