Talk:Pi Day

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Tau Beta Pi, etc., fundraising

Some organizations have taken to using the day for puns on their name in fundraising e-mails. For example, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for which the normal acronym is RPI, sends e-mails near March 14 in which it calls itself Rπ or RPi, and the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi has also done Pi Day-related fundraising. Does this belong in the article? If so, someone other than me should add it because too much of what I know is "original research" (mainly, or really exclusively, reading the e-mails that have been sent to me).47.139.43.80 (talk) 03:51, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

If there's a reliable third-party source mentioning them, those sound like good things to add to the elenfation section, but only as brief mentions, lest the section be overly tilted toward them. oknazevad (talk) 14:57, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

approximation day?

22/7 is a better approximation to pi than 3.14 you know. Why would this be "approximation day" vs pi day? Anyway, the one linked citation is broken and I find no other evidence of this actually being "celebrated".. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gjxj (talk • contribs) 12:04, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Not only 22/7, but also stuff like ⁹³⁷²⁴⁶¹⁵⁸∕₂₉₈₃₄₁₅₆₇ and other fractions like that? And we should probably also provide a link to Pi, Pie, and the official Pi day website. 68.50.116.194 (talk) 20:21, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

But there's no way to have a recurring date with those fractions, unlike 22/7. oknazevad (talk) 23:08, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

humor aspect

Maybe the humorous aspect of the Pi-Day should be mentioned. As a mathematician I laughed a lot, when I first heard of the Pi-Day. But a lot of people I have talked to did not understand that kind of humor — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.55.22.67 (talk) 18:54, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion

Add a thing at the beginning of the page called "√-1 2³ ∑ π'"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.116.194 (talk) 20:15, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

the Exploratorium

"an employee of the San Francisco science museum, the Exploratorium" isn't quite right, because there are other science museums in SF. Y'all probably won't let me fix it by calling it "the best San Francisco science museum," but it kinda saddens me to suggest "a SF science museum" because that minimizes the huge importance of the Exploratorium in the history of science museums. Oh well, maybe you can just make the link blinking or something. Briankharvey (talk) 21:49, 14 March 2024 (UTC)