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Pi, the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle or, approximately, 3. It's gone viral on YouTube and other websites, garnering the praise of many people fascinated by the number pi. Nothing I've ever done has ever approached this amount of exposure," he said.

On Pi Day, schools, science museums, educational websites, and groups of general enthusiasts from around the world will commemorate the number. See how iReporters celebrate Pi Day, and share your story. There will be pi e -eating, pi-digit memorizing, pi songwriting and poem-writing , and exchanging of pi greeting cards.

You can find dozens of online resources like Pi Across America and the San Francisco Exploratorium that have other suggested educational activities.

But amid all this celebration, there lurks a force attempting to disrupt the revelry and push self-proclaimed pi nerds in a new direction. Tau, technically, is just pi multiplied by 2, so about 6. But Michael Hartl, a physicist by training who's now an educational entrepreneur, considers this number a more elegant and appropriate circle constant than pi and thinks pi should be replaced by tau across the field of mathematics with the proper factors of 2, of course.

He's not denying the historical importance of pi , but he thinks it's time to set the record straight. I want to add this new number to the world of computer and math geeks," he said. So what's all this about?

So the mystery is part of the allure? And I think a lot of the 20th century was all about finding answers. And Pi reminds us that there are still mysteries out there.

There are truly unknowable things. A thousand years ago, we knew a few digits of Pi. Somewhere in the 20th century, we started getting into the thousands of digits. What are the main questions scientists and mathematicians are asking about Pi these days? Why do the digits of Pi unravel the way they do? One of the key questions is, is there a pattern to the digits? Freelance writer and wannabe beach bum; ditched her day job as an English teacher for writing and has not regretted it a single bit.

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