Meta. So meta.

There are two Pi Days. March 14th is the famous Pi Day. 3/14... 3.14... It makes perfect sense. But "Pi Approximation Day" is also a thing! It occurs on July 22, which, for some parts of the world, is written as 22/7, a fraction that is actually a closer approximation of Pi than 3.14. If we are being honest with ourselves, though, both days are approximations. All calculations of Pi are approximations.

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Belize, Canada, Micronesia, Kenya, the Philippines, and the United States are the only countries that widely use the Month/Day/Year format. Pi Day (the March one) makes no sense for most of the world.

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Like a metaphor for the beauty of life itself, the first million digits (and presumably the next million and so on) distribute themselves nearly evenly. Simple from a distance, but unpredictable and complex close-up!

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There are no 123456 sequences in the first million digits of Pi, but there are two instances of the sequence 012345.

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