March 14 is Pi Day and it's also Albert Einstein's birth day, so a double celebration for geeks around the world!
But hold on, why March 14th? Well, the people at the Exploratorium obviously figured out that written out as numbers this date becomes 3-14, which are the first three digits in the decimal expansion of pi (3.14...) However, they are lucky to be Americans because this makes no sense whatsoever to most of the rest of humanity! In America, they like to write their dates as month-day-year whereas most of the planet use the seemingly more rational "little endian" form day-month-year. So irrationality really does triumph on Pi Day!
Read the whole article: Irrational Exuberance - Thank Goodness It's Pi Day!
If you haven't already then do watch Pi the movie.
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