{"id":1433,"date":"2024-11-05T04:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachpi.org\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2024-11-07T01:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T08:39:05","slug":"the-pi-rap-lives-onits-been-performed-by-pi-diddy-from-coast-to-coast-and-schools-everywhere-continue-to-crank-it-up-each-march-14th-have-you-heard-it-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/1\/https-dev-ecodinghub-in-teachpi-music-lovesong\/the-pi-rap-lives-onits-been-performed-by-pi-diddy-from-coast-to-coast-and-schools-everywhere-continue-to-crank-it-up-each-march-14th-have-you-heard-it-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pi Rap Lives OnIt&#8217;s been performed by Pi Diddy from coast to coast, and schools everywhere continue to crank it up each March 14th. Have you\u00a0heard it\u00a0yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi friends,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s usually a good thing when Pi Day falls on a Saturday. The last two times this has taken place were both momentous dates in our shared history of Pi:<\/p>\n<p>[list type=&#8221;check&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2015:\u00a0 March 14 fell on a Saturday in 2015, which, of course, marked the Pi Day of the Century (3.14.15).\u00a0 I&#8217;ll never forget where I was &#8211; cheering at the precise moment with 500 fellow math lovers at a gathering in Los Angeles, where I later gave a keynote lecture and\u00a0 my pal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachpi.org\/music\/rap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi Diddy<\/a> interrupted the official digit memory contest with a surprise rap performance.\u00a0 (He&#8217;s such a spotlight-hog.)<\/li>\n<li>2009:\u00a0 This Pi Day Saturday capped off the end of a historic week in which the U.S. House of Representatives debated and (not quite unanimously) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachpi.org\/stories\/pi-goes-to-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed a resolution<\/a> to recognize and honor our favorite holiday.\u00a0 I was also with a group of about 250 math folks on the big day, speaking, performing, and sharing the breaking news coming out of the halls of Congress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/list]<\/p>\n<p>But alas, Saturday, March 14, 2020 came and went with a bit of a whimper for most of us, myself included.\u00a0 While many kids continued to crank out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachpi.org\/people\/memorizers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ever-impressive additions to the rankings<\/a>, we&#8217;ve generally had bigger things on our mind this year than the joy of an infinitely beautiful number.\u00a0 Instead, we&#8217;ve all been focused on bending the curve of the spread of the covid-19 virus away from infinity and toward zero.\u00a0 Kudos to everyone who has been making sacrifices and helping their fellow humans during this time of worldwide need.<\/p>\n<p>The nice thing about infinity is that there will always be another digit, and there will always be another Pi Day.\u00a0 For this one, we Pi people just had to keep it simple and celebrate quietly.\u00a0 For my part, I sang <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachpi.org\/music\/pi-day-carols\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi Day carols<\/a> with my kids over slices of apple pie.\u00a0 Good enough for 3.14.20.\u00a0 Looking forward to 3.14.21.<\/p>\n<p>Stay healthy and never stop appreciating the beauty in the world around us &#8211; numerical and otherwise!<\/p>\n<p>Luke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi friends, It&#8217;s usually a good thing when Pi Day falls on a Saturday. The last two times this has taken place were both momentous dates in our shared history of Pi: [list type=&#8221;check&#8221;] 2015:\u00a0 March 14 fell on a Saturday in 2015, which, of course, marked the Pi Day of the Century (3.14.15).\u00a0 I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-image","category-https-dev-ecodinghub-in-teachpi-music-lovesong","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}