And for me there’s the additional confusion that my personal fileserver happens to have been named “pi” for many years.Īfter the pi(e) mistake in our meeting we came up with all kinds of wild ideas to celebrate Pi Day. And then there’s the Raspberry Pi, that has the Wolfram Language included. Siri’s voice-to-text system sends Wolfram|Alpha lots of “pie” every day that we have to specially interpret as “pi”. I guess in our world pi confusions are strangely common. And then I realized: “You’ve got the wrong kind of pi!” And the person who runs our Events group started talking about the difficulty of finding a bakery in Austin to make something suitably big. I didn’t give it another thought, but a couple of weeks later we had another meeting about upcoming events. So I said (or at least I thought I said), “We should have a big pi to celebrate Pi Day.” Well, a number of weeks ago I was in a meeting about upcoming corporate events, and someone noted that Pi Day (3/14) would happen during the big annual SXSW (South by Southwest) event in Austin, Texas. One of my main roles as CEO is to come up with ideas-and I’ve spent decades building an organization that’s good at turning those ideas into reality. So of course we have to do something special for Pi Day of the Century. The date 3/14/15 in month/day/year format is like the first digits of π=3.1415… And at 9:26:53.589… it’s a “super pi moment”.īetween Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, I’m pretty sure our company has delivered more π to the world than any other organization in history. This coming Saturday is “Pi Day of the Century”.
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