The Radio 4 Today programme had this on their
schedule:
0850
Today is a date that only comes around once every 100 years.
PI day is celebrated annually on 14th March, because the American formulation
of the date “3/14” forms the first three digits of π, or pi, which is 3.14. But
today isn’t just any Pi Day. This year is the first time in a century that the
date is 3/14/15, which describes the first five digits of pi. Gareth Roberts is
a mathematician, Professor Sarah Hart is a Birkbeck lecturer.
Well, this is
interesting but somewhat underwhelming.
If we go to mddyyy
format, we find that we had a universally unique date, some 420 years ago in
1593, which will never be repeated. This of course gives the first seven digits
of pi (3/14/1593).
Is this a coded message
from that supernatural creator, God? If we play it backwards (3951\41\3), it looks like a coded message from the Big Guy's old adversary, Beelzebub himself.
1 comment:
Every day is pie day in my house.
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