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March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day

Posted by Soulskill on from the pi-in-the-sky-legislation dept.

whitefox writes "The scoop from CNet is that 'The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution introduced two days earlier that designates March 14, 2009 (3/14, get it?) as National Pi Day. It urges schools to take the opportunity to teach their students about Pi and "engage them about the study of mathematics."' The resolution is available online. I doubt it'll ever become a national holiday, but the Pi string in the article is pretty cool in a nerdy sort of way."

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  1. Still no National White Guy day by fluffy99 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We can get an official day for something as pointless and nerdy as this, but I still can't get a day dedicated to straight white guys? We have National Black History Month, Latino something, womens something, but god forbid you want to recognize that the vast majority of significant accomplishments in this country were done by plain ole generic white guys. How about the national black prisoners day, celebrating violent crimes (oh wait, that's a minority group but they represent the majority of violent offenders in prison).

    Would our elected representatives please stop masturbating on useless crap like this and get some real work done?