Several Edmonton restaurants are offering deals to help celebrate math with a meal on Pi Day. The global celebration of Pi, the irrational number expressing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, falls on March 13 each year (3/14 for the first three decimal points). Pi Day – coincidentally Albert Einstein’s birthday and the date Stephen Hawking died – began in 1988 as a celebration at a San Francisco museum and grew from there. Events are now held around the world, including competitions to see who can recite the most digits of the infinite number – with the Guinness World Record held by Rajveer Meena, who spent 10 hours reciting 70,000 decimal places. The following places will be offering deals or specials in honour of the much-loved mathematical constant: If you prefer celebrating with math rather than munching, you can test your skills online through NASA’s Pi Day Challenge. With files from The Associated Press
