AST Celebrates Pi Day!
This Saturday, 03/14/15, is Pi Day! AST is celebrating Pi Day in our Naperville office today by sharing our favorite flavors of pie. We will also find out which one of our team members can memorize as many digits of π as possible! How many can you recite? (No cheating!)
We also introduced our new form of transportation in the office: the AST FaceTime Express! This is our new, expertly decorated, luxury vehicle (scooter) to encourage face-to-face interaction in the office (…and less e-mailing from behind our desks).
Don’t forget to celebrate the most intriguing mathematical constant with us by enjoying your favorite pie this weekend! In the meantime, consider these fun facts about Pi:
· Pi (π), or p, is also the sixteenth letter in the Greek alphabet.
· You might also hear Pi referred to as the “circular constant,” “Archimedes’ constant,” or “Ludolph’s number.”
· The first six digits of pi (314159) appear in order at least six times among the first 10 million decimal places of pi.
· William Jones (1675-1749) introduced the symbol “π” in 1706, and it was later popularized by Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) in 1737.
· In the Greek alphabet, π (piwas) is the sixteenth letter. In the English alphabet, p is also the sixteenth letter.
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