The 14th of March is abbreviated as "3/14" or "3/14" in English nomenclature.

As soon as we hear the word 'three fourteen,' we immediately associate it with our high school years.

When listening to this, it is feasible that we continue the litany: fifteen, ninety-two... as long as our mind can recall the unique number Pi's digits to us.

In 2009, the United States Congress formally designated March 14 as "Day of the Dead."

Starting out, it was a big success, and the concept spread until it was officially named the International Day of Mathematics by UNESCO in 2019.

In the years since, the number has come to represent all of us who are passionate about mathematics.

Not actually a number at all, Pi

When it comes to maths, we employ the Greek alphabet's sixteenth letter to symbolize something more intriguing than a number (which I'm not saying numbers aren't).

Because it is not a number, the first strangeness of Pi is that it is nonsensical

However, if Pi isn't an integer, what is it?

The ratio of the circumference's length to its diameter is represented by the pi symbol.

Constant proportion means that no matter how big or small the circumference gets, the ratio will always have the same value. This is a special quality (its second rarity).

In fact, the constant value of Pi is so special (and now there are three) as to be irrational in Euclidean geometry – the one we owe to Euclid (325-265 BCE) and which ensures us, among other things, that a single straight line passes through two points

When you divide two numbers, you can never express the result as the division of two integers, even though that is what you're doing.

Without decimals, the distance a wheel may cover in one revolution is not a 'precise' value.

But, at that point, what will the cost be?

We're getting close to a critical question: what is the value of Pi? But first, let me share with you a Pi rarity: the fourth.

Infinite: Pi transcends the ordinary.

As crucial as it may be to transcend, it's not so important that it's transcendent without n.

Using this mathematical principle, we can rest assured that no polynomial can be solved by Pi.

Polynomial?

If you've ever taken a math class with him, you'll recognize him.

When the unknown is raised to one or more natural numbers, such as x2 + x + 3 = 0, the equation is a polynomial.

There is no polynomial in which x = Pi, regardless of the exponents or numbers utilized.

There are numerous numbers that don't fulfill these requirements, thus it's been shown that Pi is rare, but the best is still out there.

Yes, it's time to discuss its importance.

In search of the illusive Pi-value

The constant value of Pi (in Euclidean geometry) is 3.141592... but because it is irrational, we know that it will have infinite decimal places..

There is no end to them and they don't follow any pattern, which makes things more worse.

Each number from 0 to 9 has an equal chance of appearing at any given time.

Indeed, the values of the matrix can be utilized as a random number generator, and any sequence of numbers, including an individual's ID number, can be found among them.

This Pi property's most significant contribution is that it has served as an inspiration for a great deal of creative endeavors throughout history.

Pi's value has been sought to be as exact as possible from its discovery by the Babylonians around 2000 BCE, according to some evidence.

It was Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BCE) who developed a way to limit the value of this unusual constant as the first to bear fruit.

Rather than relying solely on the circumference, Archimedes used polygons that were both inscribed and circumscribed (those containing the circumference inside).

It would be possible to maintain a constant ratio of the circumscribed polygon's circumference value relative to the inscribed polygon's.

When Archimedes increased the number of polygonal sides, he was able to calculate an error range for Pi of up to 0.040 percent... close, but no cigar.

Count Buffon, Georges-Luis Leclerc (1707–1788), and many others followed in Archimedes' footsteps, some even from the perspective of probability and statistics, as in the case of Leclerc.

Pi was discovered by Leclerc, in particular, while attempting to figure out how likely it was that a needle thrown across a series of parallel lines would land crosswise on one of the rows.

If the lines were separated by the same distance as the needle's length, he inferred that the chance was 2 / Pi.

When several needles were thrown and the percentage of them that really sliced the parallel lines was observed, it was easy to approximate Pi.

The sixth strangeness of Pi, which is a computable number, emerged with the dawn of the computer age.

A number can be computed if there is an algorithm that can approximate its value to a predefined number of decimal places, as described by Alan Turing in 1936.

A total of 63 trillion decimal places of Pi have been figured out thus far.

The first 2037 decimal places of Pi were calculated in 1949 by an ENIAC computer, setting off a race that has already surpassed 63 billion (European) digits. In 2021 a team from the University of Applied Sciences in the Swiss canton of Grisons was able to break the human record.

In fact, Pi is more than just a fascinating mathematical object that has fascinated people for millennia.

In the estimation of our position by GPS, the movement of a wall clock's pendulum, or even in the way a personal assistant moves, the astounding number Pi appears naturally, as Rhett Alain assures us. It can tell just by hearing the user's voice that he or she wants to be told a joke, for example.

It's also a great opportunity to celebrate math and everything it has to offer on March 14.

It's International Math Day, so have a good one!