#PiDay is celebrated on March 14th since it resembles 3.14. Pi (𝛑) is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday. Fun facts #thread about #pi (1/ 5)
Last year, Emma Haruka from @Google calculated 31,415,926,535,897 digits (most calculated so far) of Pi using program called y-cruncher using 25 Google Cloud virtual machines over four-months bit.ly/3cWKDTG (2/ 5)
Pi Day was first celebrated by physicist Larry Shaw at San Francisco's Exploratorium, where he is known as the "Prince of Pi”(3/ 5)
In the original Star Trek 1967 episode “Wolf in the Fold,” Spock foils the evil computer by commanding it to “compute to last digit the value of pi” (4/ 5)
Ancient Babylonians were the first to discover pi, about 4,000 years ago. Evidence also indicates that the Babylonians calculated it as 3.125. (5/ 5)
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