Because March 14th fell on a Sunday this year, your SparkNotes editors are a little late posting about the wonderful phenomenon that is Pi Day: an annual celebration wherein mathletes from all over the world come together and attempt to out-do each other by reciting pi up to, like, one gajillion digits.
Depending on your level of nerdiness and how much free time you had, you may even have attempted a feat of pi recitation yourself, memorizing digits and engaging in a competition of your own in an attempt to win schoolwide renown as a big ol' nerd. (And if you did, you will eventually find that a perfectly good chunk of your brainspace has been forever appropriated by several hundred digits of pi, which is really going to drive you crazy in ten years when you can't remember where your keys are. Just FYI.)
But there's much more to Pi Day than mindless robotic number-running, and even though we missed the day itself, that won't stop us from putting together this handy Pi Day list to help fellow nerds belatedly celebrate the best day ever in style. So, here it is! The SparkNotes guide to...
Things to Do on Pi Day
- Enjoy your math teacher's good mood.
- Eat pie of any variety.
- Have an argument with the one fun-ruining dimwit who tries to harsh your Pi Day by pointing out that "It's not that kind of pie."
- Escalate argument until teacher suggests settling it with a pie-fight.
- Decide that said fight would be a tragic waste of pie; settle argument with a pi-fight (memorization/recitation competition) instead.
- Celebrate victory by eating more pie.
- Choreograph an interpretive dance beginning with three steps, then one step, then four steps, then one step, then five steps, then nine steps, then...
- Get tired. Eat more pie.
- Read "Life of Pi."
- Dress up as a pirate.
- Take a pilates class.
- Watch a movie about pi.
- Become disturbed; attempt to expand horizons by watching a movie about general mathematics instead.
- Become more disturbed. Eat more pie.
- Wonder why, in the movies, math always makes people go crazy.
How did you celebrate Pi Day? Tell us in the comments!
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