March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day because the date, when written as 3/14, matches the start of the decimal expansion 3.14159… of the most famous mathematical constant. By itself, pi is simply a number, ...

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This is a guest post by Manil Suri, professor of mathematics and statistics for University of Maryland, Baltimore County. A version of this article is republished from The Conversation via a Creative ...