#math puns

Imago @dark-imagine-robots

Today is Pi Day, March 14, 3/14, the first 3 digits of Pi! I'd say "Happy Pi Day Friday" but the calendar just isn't having it this year. We have to wait a whole 'nother year before that happens. By the way, if you are reading this in 2025, what's the future's like?

A few years ago back in the year 2015, we had something called "Super Pi Day", because 3/14/15 (in the US, standard date format is day/month/year). If you knew to set your watch on that day to 9:26:53AM, you'd achieve peak Pi Day digitry!

If I were a time traveler I might like going back to that day, or I'd go back a year earlier to 2014, just to tell people "Happy Pi Day Friday". Because I'm weird like that.

Pi Day was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw, at the time an employee of the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco. If I could time travel I'd go back to 1986, just to give Larry the bright idea of invent Pi Day that year. Why you might ask? So the very first Pi Day would be a Friday!

Because Pi Day started in 1988, today happens to be the 37th Pi Day, a prime number. Or you might say it's the 36th anniversary of when Pi Day started, and 36 is double 18; in Jewish tradition 18 is also known as Chai. The symbol for Chai looks pretty similar to Pi doesn't it? So this year can be called Double Chai Pi Day!

Today I brought an apple pie to work to share with coworkers, and I'm also celebrating Pi Day babies, people who were born on March 14: in 1933 actor Michael Caine and musician Quincy Jones were born, Billy Crystal came into the world in 1948, and Olympian gymnast Simone Biles is celebrating today as well. She was born in 1997 on a Pi Day Friday! In that she shares something in common with the great Albert Einstein, born March 14, 1879, Guess what day of the week his birthday was?

Pi Day Friday!

If you feel a little chilly this morning, try standing in the corner of a room...