Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 as 3/14 mimics the first three digits of the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. This year’s Pi Day is the kind that rolls around only once a century putting another two digit in play (3/14/15 are the first five digits of π).
3.14.15 @ 9:26 = HappyPiDay! pic.twitter.com/zWQDGqKdsp
— New York Jets (@nyjets) March 14, 2015
The resident number crunchers and statistics geeks at the New York Jets recognized a golden (or, at least, green and white) opportunity to spread some Pi Day cheer. They tweeted an array of 21 uniform numbers at 9:26 EST (3/14/15-9:26) to reproduce the first 53 digits of pi.
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While it may seem a tad odd for a football team to be celebrating Pi Day, for a scientist it’s like Christmas and Thanksgiving rolled into one. For example, take Neil deGrasse Tyson of Cosmos fame who went ballistic on twitter with pi trivia.
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Pi, written with enough digits to show all numerals in base 10: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 14, 2015
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Best Pi-Day Ever: 53 minutes & 58 seconds after 6 o’clock, March 14, the year 1592: 3/14/1592; 6:53:58
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 14, 2015
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Get your Geek on. Time to fit all the digits of Pi into a single tweet: Pi in base Pi = 10
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 14, 2015
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Want to know the true value of Pi? $9.49 a slice at @CarnegieDeli, NYC
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 14, 2015
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Happy Birthday to all Pi-Day people. Including @BillyCrystal @TheMichaelCaine Apollo Astronaut Frank Borman & Albert Einstein
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 14, 2015
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You’re curious — I can feel it. How many digits of Pi before the numerals 0123456789 appear in sequence? 17,387,594,879
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 14, 2015
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If all this talk about pi has whet your appetite, try sating your hunger by memorizing the first 2422 digits of the endless sequence like 6th grader Benjamin Most.
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