Google’s Emma Haruka Iwao breaks Pi world record

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The world record for most accurate value of pi has been broken. Emma Haruka Iwao, who has worked at Google for nearly four years, found the new digits of pi by using the company’s cloud computing service. She managed to calculate pi to 31 trillion digits. Read more…

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Get free dessert for a year when you sign up for Plated

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Yeah Pi Day is a play on words regarding math, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate with actual sweets. Or even better yet, free sweets for a year.

Plated meal delivery service is offering a year of free desserts for first-time subscribers in honor of Pi Day. (That’s a value of up to $416.) Just enter the code PiDay when you sign up for a subscription. As long as you start your subscription with the promo code by the end of March 14, you’re eligible to add a dessert from the available Plated menu to each order at no additional cost.

Whether you cook for a family every day or you just treat yourself to a nice meal a couple times a week, Plated has a subscription plan to fit your lifestyle. Choose how many servings you want and how many meals you’d like to cook each week. You can pick two, three, or four servings per night and two, three, or four meals per week.  Read more…

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Celebrate Pi Day by building epic robots with Raspberry Pi

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Pi Day is finally here. The least imaginative celebrate by cooking pies, the academic indulge in a worldwide celebration of mathematics, and the stubborn insist that Pi Day doesn’t make sense because the equation is an infinite number and not 3.14. That last group never gets invited to any of the parties thrown by the first two. Oh, and if you think we’re joking: the first widespread celebration of Pi Day was in 1988, and in 2009 Congress supported the designation of March 14th as Pi Day. It’s a real holiday, not just a math joke.

As for us? We’re celebrating Pi Day with a bunch of deals on courses that will teach you to tinker with Raspberry Pi — a miniature computer that’s a great practice ground for programming your own electronics, robotics, and Internet of Things experiments. You can even use it to teach Amazon Alexa to do crazy things.  Read more…

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ThinkGeek is having a huge Pi Day sale: Save 31.4% on merch from Star Wars, ‘Game of Thrones,’ and more

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Happy Pi Day — also known as the most important made-up holiday in the geek world, aside from May the Fourth of course.

ThinkGeek is celebrating with a sitewide sale: Just use code PIDAY19 to get a very appropriate 31.4% off everything (except for pre-orders). We’ll cheers to that.

There’s something for every type of geek here, whether it’s a Rick and Morty Plumbus replica, a Star Trek Bluetooth Communicator, or Harry Potter underwear. When it’s from ThinkGeek, you know it was approved by a real fan — and it’s stuff you won’t find anywhere else.

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Stephen Hawking died on Einstein’s birthday because everything in the cosmos is connected

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As the world reels from the death of Stephen Hawking, one of the great science minds in all of history, admirers are taking some solace in a few coincidences surrounding Hawking’s birthday and the date of his passing.

It’s long been known that Hawking’s birthday, January 8, 1942, fell on the 300th anniversary of the death of another great science mind, Galileo Galilei. 

But the day of his death, in the early hours of March 14, 2018 at his home in Cambridge, England, happened to coincide with the birthday of yet another genius: Albert Einstein, born March 14, 1879.

Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942, on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death. He died today, March 14th, on the anniversary of Einstein’s birth. Time is circular – no beginning, no end.

— Warren Leight (@warrenleightTV) March 14, 2018 Read more…

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Google Doodle re-creates pi formula in delicious apple pie form

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For the 30th anniversary of Pi Day, Google went there. It made a Pi-themed Google Doodle out of, yep you guess it, pie ingredients. Hilarious. 

Pi Day is celebrated every year on March 14—or 3.14—as an homage to the mathematical constant, which is equal to 3.14159. 

This year Google decided to mark the 30th occurrence of this event with a nod to “the number’s delicious sounding name.” The Doodle represents Pi’s mathematical formula—the ratio between a circle’s circumference to its diameter—in pie form.

Pi Day was first recognised 30 years ago back in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw, according to Google. And, those wishing to mark to the occasion often do so by enjoying a slice of their favourite pie.  Read more…

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