Pi Day is almost upon us and you'll need more than a pie tin to celebrate properly. Few holidays inspire this many math-based memes and jokes, so get 'em while they're hot... I mean, get 'em while they're the ratio of a circle's circumference and diameter.
While a single number may not seem like much cause for celebration, let alone its own"Pi Day," pi has been a crucial part of mathematics and numerous other fields since ancient times, with Babylonian tablets and Chinese mathematical texts affirming its use, thousands of years ago. A foundational number in geometry, pi is employed in architecture, physics and cartography, popping up throughout the natural world as well.
Pi Day itself was first celebrated in 1988, organized by physicist Larry Shaw of the San Francisco science museum, the Exploratorium. Celebrants walked around in circles and ate—what else—pies. Pi Day celebrations went mainstream in the internet era, consecrated by a National Pi Day resolution passed by Congress in 2009 and its own Google Doodle the year after. Since then, the holiday has become a staple day for online memes, polite chuckle jokes and wretched puns. Here are some of our favorite.
Thankfully we've invented new ways of being funny since Pi Day first began in the 1980s, most importantly Vine, RIP. But there's also memes. Oh Pythagoras, are there a lot of Pi Day memes and well-wishes.
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