Pi Day: Math, Pies, and Space Exploration

0:00It's March 14th in Durham. Let's get into the news. Math fans and pie lovers mark Pie Day every March 14th, nodding to the first digits of pie, the endless number around 3.14. This fun holiday, kicked off in 1988, thanks to physicist Larry Shaw at the San Francisco Exploratorium Science Museum. It began as a simple staff gathering with pies, but grew into a lively parade where crowds carried giant digits around a pie shrine. The event fires up precisely at 1.59 pm, capturing more of pie's sequence, and draws folks who return year after year. Enthusiasts go all out with some sporting pie tattoos and leading marches, while restaurants and stores offer sweet deals on pies and pizzas to join. The fun. In cutting-edge science, pie powers aerospace calculations for things like spacecraft paths and signals to distant probes like NASA's voyagers, helping unlock deep space secrets. Researchers also rely on it for tiny fluid droplets in medical breakthroughs,

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