Yes. It’s Pi Day Eve again. Already!

Seems like Pi Day 2017 was only 3.14 days ago.

Pi Day, a finite day that celebrates an infinite number, is Wednesday, March 14.

DesignatedWriters has an endless list of fun activities. Well, not really endless, like pi.

OK, we don’t have anything planned. An endless supply of nothing planned.

Endless.

The reason for that: there are few things DW knows less about than math, and pi is math. And it’s the hardest math there is because there is no end to it.

Pi — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — is approximately 3.14159, and Pi Day is celebrated on 3-14 around the world. This is where DW’s semi-understanding of pi and “maff” ends.

According to PiDay.org, pi “has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal point. As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern.” Both pi and some people have a lot of extra time on their greedy little math hands.

One of the activities at Louisiana Tech tomorrow involves students trying to recite pi digits as deeply as they can go, by memory. The winner gets a prize. DW could get to “3.14” and then we would have to sit down.

Some of you might want to keep up with the action, which you can do by checking Instagram (@LATechPiDay). The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is also sponsoring a Scavenger Hunt, which you would think would go on forever, you know, to stick to the theme. But no: the first clue will roll out at 10:30 Wednesday morning, and since there will be very smart people looking for it, it will likely end at 10:45.

But since DW likes to champion The Little Guy, here is our question:

Why doesn’t sine have a day? Or cosine? Or Tanget?

Where’s the love for the empty set? “Go nil go!”

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