Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120314:20:38:00
To have a delicious pie for the team. they realized they weren't talking about this pie but this kind of pie, the mathematical constant. used to determine the area of a circle. without the number of pie, we would have no theory of motion or basic understanding of geometry. it was actually studied as far back as the egyptians, babylonians. we get the symbol of pie from the greeks. it was in 1979 that they decided to celebrate this important number and why you may ask celebrate it on march 14th? as pie day? well, 3, 1 and 4 are the first three digits of pie. pie has been calculated out to the te...
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