Students across the nation are celebrating Pi Day on Thursday,
the annual celebration that commemorates the mathematical
constant π (pi) which is the ratio of a circle's circumference
to its diameter. The day has been observed in schools every
March 14 for the past 25 years, because the infinite number
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Crisis? Vote Now Physicist Larry Shaw founded the day at the San
Francisco Exploratorium in 1988. The House of Representatives
recognized National Pi Day on March 12, 2009, in a non-binding
resolution. Middle schools, elementary schools, and universities
mark the holiday with pie eating contests to events on football
fields shaped like the mathematical constant (π) to promote and
educate others. Thursday morning, students at the California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena devoured 130 pies in front
of dormitories in celebration of Pi Day , The Los Angeles Times
reported. "It’s a celebration of nerdiness," said Christopher
Perez, president of the