Get Ready For Pi Day!

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Time for one of our favorite episodes. Listen in for Pi Day fun. 🥧 Correspondent Sarah Namias is here to go on, and on, and on about Pi 🤯 Fellow Ten'ers recite as many digits of Pi as they can remember 🚀 Find out if NASA Scientists really use Pi to figure out if there's life outside of earth 🚧 Test your ancient construction knowledge on today's trivia

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0:00.0	3.14, uh, um...
0:08.0	What's you doing over there, Ryan?
0:10.0	Just seeing how many digits of pie I can remember.
0:13.0	3.145, 6, 7, 8, 9, no, uh, 3.14 PX, Q, T, G, Z, no, Z. No, what comes next?
0:22.8	Don't give up, Rye.
0:24.4	From the pyramids to outer space,
0:26.6	there is one special number that we need.
0:29.9	I'm Bethany Van Delft.
0:31.1	It's Saturday, March 12th,
0:33.0	and today we're celebrating Pi Day.
0:35.8	This is the 10 News Gets Extra.
0:38.3	10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
0:46.3	Pie Day is March 14th, aka 314, which are the first three digits of the number pie.
0:55.6	Are you scratching your head?
0:57.4	I'm calling in back up.
1:01.6	Here's 10 news correspondents, Sarah and Nehmias, with the scoop on pie.
1:08.5	What is all the fuss about pie day?
1:10.5	Are we supposed to eat pie?
1:14.2	Something about math, circles? What is going on? Well, actually, it's all of that. March 14th is famously known as Pie Day, and that's pie
1:22.7	spelled P-I, not P-I-E as in the one we eat. If you're like me and need to visualize something to really understand it, then listen closely.
1:33.3	Imagine you're drawing a circle, or a round pie, if you will.
1:37.3	Go for it. You can draw it on paper or even just draw it in the air.
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