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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We need to get a couple of things straight before this goes any further.

No. 1 — I don’t care about your bracket.

No. 2 — Please don’t care about mine.

It’s the time of year when most people should be worried about getting their taxes in on time, but instead, all you hear is “how’z yerr brackiiiit?” The only thing worse than listening to someone tell you how they had all the #12 seeds winning in the first round is to have to listen to someone explain how they broke 80 with a hole-by-hole, shot-by-shot breakdown.

If I told you that I won a bracket pool a few years ago because I had Cornell and St. Mary’s making it to the Sweet 16, would you think I’m some kind of genius? And would you remember it 15 seconds later? Of course not. So why subject everyone else to it?

If you told me, “Hey, if I win the bracket pool, I’m splitting it with you just because you took the time to listen to me drone on and on and on,” then I am all about it. In the meantime, I’ll pull for you and you can pull for me, but let’s don’t enter into a bracket relationship. It’s not going to end well.

This while thing is a total crap shoot. Some guy from the America East Conference knocks down an off-balanced 3-pointer at the buzzer and that ruins everything. I will say this: Too many people spend time worrying about who didn’t get in the tournament and those who snuck in. Those teams aren’t going to win this thing anyway, so stop crying about it.

Dick Vitale and Jay Bilas don’t have any way of knowing how this is all going to play out any more than Dick & Jane. (If you are under 50, ignore that reference. But we might need to file that away for a future DW column.)

Here’s my only semi-advice if you’ve watched any amount of college basketball: How “good” is a team’s “best?” When they play as well as they can play, who can they beat, based on the games played this year? Michigan State can beat anybody. Arizona can beat anybody.

Sure, they can lose to anybody, but that’s not the point. Teams are going to have to play their best to win this thing and if you want to be around for awhile, you might take that into account.

Otherwise, flip a coin.