{"id":23257,"date":"2014-03-14T08:47:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T13:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=23257"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:21:03","slug":"its-friday-better-yet-its-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/23257-its-friday-better-yet-its-pi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Friday! Better Yet, It&#8217;s Pi Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13485\" alt=\"Pi\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Pi.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Pi.jpg 280w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Pi-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Pi-190x190.jpg 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Pi-120x120@2x.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/18340-happy-star-wars-day\">a few numerical days a year<\/a> that we here at OWC really like to geek out over \u2026 well <i>some<\/i> of us do. And today just happens to be one of those special days.<\/p>\n<p>Today is March 14 or 3\/14, which of course, is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pi_Day\">Pi Day<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t know, pi is the ratio of a circle&#8217;s circumference to its diameter and is approximately equal to 3.1415. (Pi is an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irrational_number\">irrational number<\/a> and actually has been calculated to over 10 trillion digits).<\/p>\n<p>But while today&#8217;s date is always a cool date among math enthusiasts and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pi_(film)\">Darren Aronofsky<\/a> buffs, next year is the <em>truly<\/em> special Pi Day. At 9:26:53 a.m. and p.m. on March 14, 2015, for two awesomely nerdy seconds that day, Pi Day will extend to ten digits (3.141592653). Which is exactly seven more digits than I can ever be troubled to remember.<\/p>\n<p>So celebrate Pi Day with a <a href=\"http:\/\/6dollarshirts.com\/product.php?productid=12229&amp;gclid=CIb8wKShkL0CFchFMgody1MAUg\">fancy new t-shirt<\/a>, or by sneaking out to your local diner for a nice piece of triple berry <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">pi<\/span> pie.<\/p>\n<p>Just please don\u2019t bother spending it memorizing impossibly long numbers\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few numerical days a year that we here at OWC really like to geek out over \u2026 well some of us do. And today just happens to be one of those special days. Today is March 14 or 3\/14, which of course, is Pi Day! For those who don\u2019t know, pi is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3770],"class_list":["post-23257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-thoughts-and-topics","category-unplugged"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2 (Yoast SEO v20.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>That&#039;s Right, Friday Is Pi Day!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"That&#039;s Right, Friday Is Pi Day!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/23257-its-friday-better-yet-its-pi-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s Friday! 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