{"id":3001,"date":"2012-03-14T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/pi-day-celebrate-the-irrational-on-3-14\/"},"modified":"2012-03-14T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T15:45:53","slug":"pi-day-celebrate-the-irrational-on-3-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/pi-day-celebrate-the-irrational-on-3-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Day: Celebrate the Irrational on 3.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pi<\/strong>, Greek letter ( \u03c0 ), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pi<\/strong> = 3.1415926535&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pi Day<\/strong> is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14 (or 3\/14).<\/p>\n<p>With the use of computers, <strong>Pi<\/strong> has been calculated to over 1 trillion digits past the decimal. <strong>Pi<\/strong> is an irrational number meaning it will continue infinitely without repeating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pi Day<\/strong> is a holiday commemorating the mathematical constant \u03c0 (pi). Larry Shaw created <strong>Pi Day<\/strong> in 1988. The holiday was celebrated at the  San Francisco Exploratorium, where Shaw worked as a physicist, with  staff and visitors marching around one of its circular spaces and then  consuming fruit pies.\u00a0 The Exploratorium continues to hold <strong>Pi Day<\/strong> celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of <strong>Pi Day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:45:53 +0000 by\u00a0j.zamurs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pi, Greek letter ( \u03c0 ), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}