March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day

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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But March 14th is already taken!

[richy freeway]

Steak and Blowjob day has already claimed March 14th.

http://www.steakandbjday.com/

Re:From across the pond

[Anonymous Coward]

MM/DD makes more sense. How do you verbally say a date?

I know just a few Europen languages, but here are some examples: "el 4 de julio", "4. juli" or "4th of July". We use either little endian (4th of July, 2009) or big endian (2009-07-04), but not middle endian (September 11th, 2001) like you do.

Re:From across the pond

[Volanin]

Nice!
I am totally in!
Now we only have to manage the silly limitation that April only goes to 30!

Re:It's a Saturday

[wildsurf]

The irony in all this is that Pi is Wrong!

For a variety of reasons, the number 2pi (6.2832...) works out much better as a fundamental constant than Pi, and it simplifies many mathematical formulas. The linked article suggests that 2pi be labeled a 'turn'; so in that sense, 90 degrees is a quarter-turn; etc. Surprisingly insightful.

So while the rest of you jump the gun, I'll be celebrating on June 28th. :)