3.14

I disapprove of pi day.  I like to eat pie too and I get that pie's are circles, but pi is not pie and this rationalization of irrationality should bother you too!

First off, pi is an irrational number (it never ends when written in decimal form).  Why confine our celebration of its transcendental nature to three whole numbers? Also, we do not commonly separate the month from the day with a decimal place  - we actually write it down as a fraction!  So 3/14 does not even make me think of 3.14....

Second, if we were going with the Europeans (which we should in this regard) and list day first, month second - then we would be getting closer at least!  Not on March 14 (14/3) but on the 22nd of July (22/7) which is known, most appropriately, as Pi Approximation Day.  (I say the Europeans have it right because day-month-year is going from small to big whereas month-day-year is just plain weird.)

Finally, a never ending, non repeating number that represents the ratio of circumference to diameter and, as a result, appears in most of our fundamental equations -  is bigger than a one day celebration.  Sure, let it blow your mind - but don't stuff the Greek letter with a power punch inside of a little 3.14 box.