I wanted to share with you the following article that was published by The Daily Gazette :

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="650"] PHOTOGRAPHER: MARC SCHULTZ | Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School 11th grader Jake Ashcraft wins the Math class Pi Eating Contest on March 14,, 2014.[/caption]

CAPITAL REGION — Feel free to have an extra slice of apple, blueberry or peach cobbler Saturday . It is a very special, once-in-a-century Pi Day.

The Gregorian calendar and the way Americans numerically format it — variations of Month-Day-Year and sometimes Time — can offer some mathematical Easter eggs that are either readily apparent or have to be learned.

Last Dec. 13 offered an easy one: 12/13/14, right in a row. If you had a baby born at 10:11 a.m. or p.m., chances are you made the local newspaper.

March 14 is just another day unless written out numerically, and then only if you remember your grade-school math. Each year 3/14 is Pi Day — for 3.14. (An aside: How cool is it that Pi Day falls on Albert Einstein’s birthday? Just sayin’.) This is the day the geeks truly inherit the Earth.

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