Social media celebrates Pi Day
Happy Pi Day! Every year on March 14, people around the world celebrate Pi, the mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. That number, represented by the Greek letter "π," starts with 3.14159, with more digits stretching on infinitely.
Coincidentally, Pi Day shares the same date as Albert Einstein's birthday. This makes March 14 a one-of-a-kind day for math fans, as well as those who just happen to like pie.
On social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, users channeled their inner mathematicians and had some tongue-in-cheek fun with the date.
Everyone from world-renowned scientists to Google to NASA gave a shout-out to Pi.
Happy Pi-day to all. Posted my best Pi-tweets a year ago. So today, I'll just wish a happy 137th Birthday to Albert Einstein.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 14, 2016
Happy #PiDay from a satellite literally made from Pi - @Raspberry_Pi that is. https://t.co/qd4ZwLh39u pic.twitter.com/yys6o3kFiz
— NASA Goddard (@NASAGoddard) March 14, 2016
Today's the day to eat exactly 3.14 slices of pizza. #PiDay pic.twitter.com/7XKCFmbxYm
— Google Play (@GooglePlay) March 14, 2016
Happy #PiDay! Celebrate 3.14 with some great books on both kinds of Pi/e. https://t.co/ZlNAYNGPic pic.twitter.com/w3lO3EnczE
— NY Public Library (@nypl) March 14, 2016
Pi isn't the only number with a more specific name: https://t.co/x65gXuGhui #PiDay pic.twitter.com/tLBjUcHeRL
— Oxford Dictionaries (@OxfordWords) March 14, 2016
Unsurprisingly, a lot of users on photo-sharing app Instagram, decided to send out lots of images of tasty looking pies.
On Facebook, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology honored both Einstein and the numerical constant.
Happy birthday, Albert Einstein! We got you a special gift this year: The first direct detection of gravitational waves 〰️〰️〰️ http://mitsha.re/Yb0yRImage via GIPHY.
Posted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Monday, March 14, 2016
Happy #PiDay!! Can you beat these MIT students in a π challenge?Video: Jenny Li Fowler/MIT
Posted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Monday, March 14, 2016
Even the Nobel Prize committee commemorated the day, with a Facebook message posted at the moment of peak Pi, precisely 1:59 p.m.
It’s March 14 (3.14) – Happy ‘Pi day’! #π Today’s date resembles 3.14159, the common approximation of the mathematical...
Posted by Nobel Prize on Monday, March 14, 2016