March 14 is more than Pi Day. Its surprising history includes famous births, the death of physicist Stephen Hawking and a milestone for a daring dirigible.
Famous people born on March 14, Pi Day, include Albert Einstein, NBA All-Star Steph Curry, Actors Billy Crystal, and Michael Caine, and Olympic Gold Medalist Simone Biles; It would take 12 billion digits of pi typed out using a normal-sized font to connect New York City and Kansas City.
Stephen Curry's birthday is just a few days away on March 14, also Pi Day, the annual celebration of the mathematical constant π.
Famous March 14th birthdays include Michael Caine, Quincy Jones, Billy Crystal, and Simone Biles.
3 . 14.2023 Happy Birthday Albert Einstein. Born on Pi-day, 1879, Germany. Shown teaching physics at Lincoln University, PA (an HBCU) in 1946.
In what may be regarded as an astounding coincidence, famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died on Pi Day, March 14, the day each year when scientists and mathematicians celebrate the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
Introduced by William Jones in 1706, use of the symbol was popularized by Leonhard Euler, who adopted it in 1737. An eighteenth-century French mathematician named Georges Buffon devised a way to calculate π based on probability.
Your April baby's birthday is pretty rare.
Your little one is unlikely to need to share the limelight on their birthday because April birthdays are not super common. Only two April birthdates made their way into the top 200 most popular birthdays (April 4th at 144th and April 11th at 189th), while 11 landed below 300.
June the 1st is a particularly bad day. This is the most common birthday according to the records.
Happy Birthday, Pisces! The twelfth astrological sign in the Zodiac, Pisces is the sign for folks who are born between February 19 and March 20. The astrological symbol shows two fish swimming in opposite directions, representing the duality within the Piscean nature.
According to real birth data compiled from 20 years of American births, mid-September is the most birthday-packed time of the year, with September 9th being the most popular day to be born in America, followed closely by September 19th.
And how did it get the name "pi"? It was first called "pi" in 1706 by [the Welsh mathematician] William Jones, because pi is the first letter in the Greek word perimitros, which means "perimeter." Why does "pi" deserve its own day?
The first Pi Day celebration was organized by physicist Larry Shaw at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988. The 2015 Pi Day was called the "Pi Day of the Century," because its date in the day-month-year format was 3-14-15, which gives the first four digits of pi. This splendid event occurs but once it a century.
Founded in 1988, and recognized by Congress in 2009, Pi Day celebrates the mathematical sign pi and fosters an appreciation for math and science. Tuesday is Pi Day, a national celebration of the mathematical concept, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter and equals 3.14...
Celebrated on 14th March every year, it represents the first 3 digits of Pi – 3.14 (in the American date format). As it happens, it is also the same date as Albert Einstein's birthday!
Christmas, New Years, Christmas Eve, July 4th, Halloween, and some suspiciously Thanksgiving days all make the top 10 least common birthdays.
The Least Common Birthdays
December 25 (Christmas Day) is the least common birthday, while January 1 (New Year's Day) is the second least common. December 24 (Christmas Eve) also makes the list as the 3rd least common birthday while July 4 (Independence Day) is the 4th least common birthday.
January birthdays are super special.
Despite the star power January has, chances are your little January babe won't share a birthday with too many classmates. Only one January birthday lands among the top 200 most popular birthdays…and that's January 24th all the way down in spot 199!
There are so many special things about your May baby… including the day they were born. Only one May birthdate cracks the top 100 popular birthdays (May 23rd lands in 89th place).
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 etc. Before you click remember - it's a byte a digit! The first 1000000 decimal places contain: 99959 0s, 99758 1s, 100026 2s, 100229 3s, 100230 4s, 100359 5s, 99548 6s, 99800 7s, 99985 8s and 100106 9s. There's one '3' before the decimal point...
You can't actually write down all of pi since it's an irrational number and it has digits that go on forever. You can either use a fraction or write it as a decimal—like 3.14. But that's only three digits. How about 3.14159 or 3.14159265359 or even a trillion digits—wouldn't that be better?
The value of π up to 50 decimal places is given below: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510. i) Make a frequency distribution of the digits from 0 to 9 after the decimal point.