However, Pi day is more than just a day to celebrate our favourite irrational number. It is also a day to celebrate mathematics as a whole, and here at Northbridge the mathematics department is passionate to get students to engage in fun facts and competitions to instill our students with a newfound love in one of the most abstract disciplines.
Students learn the allure of pi, on this day. For such a simple ratio the number never has an exact value. It is transcendental, in which the decimal place keeps going and humans have still not calculated a specific end to its complexity.
As Antranig Basman best explained it: