Each week, Ben Hopkinson looks back at what’s happened the past 7 days and what was trending on Twitter with the Maritime Hashtag Minute.
This week’s #MaritimeHashtagMinute was #PiDay, a celebration for the mathematical constant Pi (π). In America, 14th March is written out as 3/14, which is Pi rounded to two decimal places.
View the Tweets below:
Happy Pi day! The current date and time (14 March, 1.59pm) resemble 3.14159, the approximation of the mathematical constant Pi, or π. Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The ratio stays the same no matter how big or small the circle is.
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) March 14, 2023
#π #PiDay pic.twitter.com/MBYr4MBKQU
Happy Pi Day! While 3/14 connects to the mathematical constant π -the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter- it's also Albert Einstein's birthday. A memorial to the physicist stands just across Constitution Ave & shows him sitting on an (of course!) circular platform. pic.twitter.com/GPQJV9XR6a
— National Mall NPS (@NationalMallNPS) March 14, 2023
Happy Pi Day! ⭕️
— CMS Experiment CERN (@CMSExperiment) March 14, 2023
3.14 is an irrational number, but it is around us everywhere!
CMS is no exception! #PiDay #piDay2023 pic.twitter.com/CCb4IidG3Z
It’s #PiDay, the holiday that revolves around circles! To celebrate, we’ve rounded up these scientific sights from our experiments on @Space_Station: a spherical space flame, a zinnia flower with a circular center & a drop of protein solution.
— NASA Space Science (@NASASpaceSci) March 14, 2023
Vote below on your favorite image! pic.twitter.com/GLhAveB79e
There are many days celebrating maths (aren't all days maths days?), but we in Oxford Mathematics have a soft spot for today, Pi Day, for the complex mathematical reason that Pi is the name of our cafe.
— Oxford Mathematics (@OxUniMaths) March 14, 2023
So, to celebrate, we baked. pic.twitter.com/9TYRrVeERN
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