Pi

Zizipho, an 8th grade student, displays her Pi Day poster.

School Year Blog: If There’s One Thing COSAT Students Love More than Pi, it’s Pie

Yesterday was Pi Day, when nerds around the world celebrate the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. (Pi, of course, begins with 3.14, hence 3/14 is Pi Day.) On Wednesday, students at COSAT created posters to honor that most famous of non-repeating, irrational numbers.

Happy Pi Day!

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