Everybody repeat after me: three point one four one five nine.
(Credit:
Pi Day.org)
I'm a humble wordsmith, so I'm stopping there. The rest of you more mathematically inclined types, feel free to keep adding to that list of significant digits, ad infinitum. But if you do, you might miss out on some of the other Pi Day festivities.
You could start by learning more about the near-mystical number--3.14 in its most severely abbreviated form, hence the March 14 (3/14) honors--at the official Pi Day site. There you can find out about the history of pi, how to use the number in a classroom to good effect, and how other people are celebrating the occasion. (Hint: The celebrations often involve a dessert that is both circular, as befits a number used in calculating the dimensions of a circle, and a homophone for the term itself.)
John Tierney offers further musings and amusement in his blog at the New York Times Web site: "Win a Pie on Pi Day"
The Huffington Post, too, has good pointers to various pi-related posts: "Pi Day: Time To Party!"
And be sure to check back here at CNET News.com later on Friday for video and other coverage from Kara Tsuboi and Daniel Terdiman, who'll be reporting from the scene at the San Francisco Exploratorium, which is where--according to Tierney--the Pi Day feasting began.
EMC on Thursday said it will acquire Pi, a cloud computing start-up founded by former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz.
Financial terms of the all-cash transaction were not disclosed.
Maritz will join the storage company as president and general manager of a newly created Cloud Infrastructure and Services division.
Privately held Pi, which has about 100 employees, is now beta-testing an online personal information management service (Pi stands for "personal information").
The software Pi is working on is designed to let people control, share, and publish information that is online or locally stored, according to the company's Web site.
EMC said that Pi will fit into the company's "cloud infrastructure" strategy. Cloud computing is the idea of building and running applications that run on the Web and are delivered as a service.
"We're saying that success in this new space will require a very different technology base--and a business model--very unlike other parts of the traditional IT landscape," wrote Chuck Hollis, EMC's global marketing chief technology officer, in his blog.
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