Tomorrow, March 14, is a very special Pi (π) Day. It is a once in a century event. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 in honor of the mathematical constant pi. For those of you who, like me, have forgotten high school math, pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It is 3.14159265359 although it has been calculated to over a trillion digits beyond the decimal point. That is because it is an irrational and transcendental number.
Tomorrow will be 3/14/15. There will be two opportunities to take pause at 9:26 a.m. and p.m. at the 53 second mark.
A goodly number of GLOs have Pi in their name – Sigma Pi, Pi Lambda Phi, Pi Kappa Phi, Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Delta Pi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Beta Theta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Pi Sigma, Lambda Pi Chi, and likely a few I’ve forgotten. Happy Pi Day to you all!
Photo courtesy of my favorite baker.
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This from my facebook feed via Beta Theta Pi. The Interfraternity Council (IFC) is generally the campus governing body of the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) fraternities. The Executive Team is comprised of the officers of the IFC – President, Vice-President, Secretary, etc. The men on the Executive Team are usually from different chapters within the IFC. Given the amount of NIC fraternities at Oklahoma University, I suspect these are eight men from eight different NIC fraternities.
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