This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known — so far — to be more than one trillion digits long. They are the acolytes of the church of pi.
And once a year many of them gather to talk about pi, rhapsodize about it, eat pi-themed foods (actual pie, sure, but so much more), have pi recitation contests and, just maybe, feel a little less sheepish about their unusual passion.
That day falls on Wednesday this year: March 14. Or 3.14. Obviously.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_fe_st/the_church_of_pi
Happy Pi Day all, interestingly enough Einstein's birthday as well.
You know you it's all around you, all day every day, maths is a beautiful thing.
Think about it some time.
Cheers,
Dean
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