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No Day for Lawyers

By Simon Chester

By now most newspaper readers will know of a momentous event at 1:59:26 one numerical representation of the date and time, 3.1415926, aligned with pi out to seven decimal places. This afternoon the digital clock in North America turned to show 3.1415926. PI Day was March 14.

At 1.59pm at the San Francisco Exploratorium a parade of people processed approximately 3.14 times around a shrine to Pi ? and then ate pie.

Curiously it was also Talk Like a Physicist day, and Albert Einstein’s 130th anniversary.

So a significant day for physicists, mathematicians and obsessives of various sorts - to a million digits no less - or the Pi of the Month Club.

I’m surprised that there’s no day for lawyers - St. Ivo’s day on May 19 comes and goes. Ike’s Law Day (36 USC 113) or Law Week doesn’t exactly have Hallmark selling cards.

Curiously Google chose to commemorate the 174th birthday of Giovanni Schiaparelli who first charted the surface of Mars - see .

But PI is infinitely fascinating and fascinatingly infinite.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on March 14, 2009 (boomark / email).